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sumundur
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:27 am Post subject: DVD Woes |
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| I just got a dvd player off of Daves, went home, and put in Juwon, and it won't work. Wrong region it says. I got screwed. It does play the burned DVD I was given for free. Now, how do I figure out what region the player is, and is there any way to change it so it will play Korean DVDs? It 's a Samsung. Please Help! |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:33 am Post subject: Re: DVD Woes |
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| sumundur wrote: |
| I just got a dvd player off of Daves, went home, and put in Juwon, and it won't work. Wrong region it says. I got screwed. It does play the burned DVD I was given for free. Now, how do I figure out what region the player is, and is there any way to change it so it will play Korean DVDs? It 's a Samsung. Please Help! |
Need the exact model number. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:08 am Post subject: |
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You can make your player "Region free" which means that you take away the functionality of looking for the region through a firmware patch or entering Region 0 (R0). I believe this is why Beaver is asking you for your model number. Be careful about doing this and do your research first about the effects. Sometimes DVD's will be coded to NOT play on a region free player due to Region Code Enhancement (RCE), coding. This practice will become more common in the next little while.
Korea is in Region 3 (R3), try inputing the code and see if it will work then.
BTW, the free ripped DVD worked because it is probably either a in VCD, or in an AVI or other ripped file format... chances are that it's not a true DVD encoded disc. |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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sumundur
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a Samsung S129, is there any place that would convert it to region free for me. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:41 am Post subject: |
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They haven't got your exact machine, but all the Samsung's seem to work in a broadly similar way
http://www.dvd365.net/?hacks/samsung.htm
you might have to do some fiddling since you don't know what region it's currently set to. |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| An easier method is you could also just use "DVD Region Free", thats an app you run that bypasses the region code. As long as you run the app you are okay. |
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sumundur
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| It's currently set to region 1. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| well then you'll need to tap in 2, 9, 3, 3, 4 at the language screen by the look of it. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Why not just change it to region 3 for Korea? Most players have 3 or 4 changes allowed in the settings these days don't they?
Why make a player region free before you have even expended the change times?  |
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