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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 92 |
| Posted: | | | | I think they all use the same chip: http://www.bluraymods.com/ I've got the one for my LX-BD70 and that is working perfectly! | | | ![](http://dvd.molberg.eu/ws.php?me=CalInTheZone) |
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Registered: June 27, 2007 | Posts: 2,049 |
| Posted: | | | | thanks a lot for the info. Do you think it's possible to ship a player from austria to them and back? Hopefully. As for your question, I live in Vienna. | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 460 |
| Posted: | | | | For Stegen Electronics I know that it won't be a problem. | | | Jean-Paul |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 811 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting GSyren: Quote: Sony players are definitely not code free normally. If they were, the folks at bluraymods.com wouldn't have created mod kits for them.
I guess it's conceivable that Sony is making code free players for some markets, but I highly doubt it. If they did, there would have been a lot of talk about it on various forums, and this is the first I have heard of anything like that. Sony players will never be code free |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 811 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Stephan.klose: Quote: I just bought my HD-DVD Player 2 Months ago. Now I got all the titles I want. So it's time for Blu Ray. I live in Austria/Europe but I like to buy my Movies in the US. So I need to know what Players, or Brands are Code Free. My Boss told me that all Sony Blu Ray Players are Code Free. I haven't verified that up till now. Does anyone know if that's true? Further more, I am interested in the Samsung BD 1400. Does anyone have an Idea if that one (the european Version) is code free?
Thanks upfront for any input! Maybe your best bet is to just buy a U.S. Region spec player? |
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Registered: June 27, 2007 | Posts: 2,049 |
| Posted: | | | | Well your were all right. I talked to sony and it seems my boss misunderstood. they aren't codefree. Not in Blu Ray Mode and not in DVD Mode. But I won't give up until I find one.. I can't just buy and american one.. as I wanna watch european blu rays too.. | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 37 |
| Posted: | | | | As others have said it is inconceivable at this time Sony would offer a zone free Blu ray player. The best option for Europe is to get a PS3 from Hong Kong. Same voltage as Europe and will play zone A Blu Ray discs. However it will only play region 0 and region 3 DVDs but this is not an issue as almost all our existing DVD players are region free for all DVDs I got mine from Elman at Delon +852 27300214 and it works a treat. Well under USD400. What would be handy is a hack for the DVD portion, the presense of which seems just pointless. |
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Registered: June 27, 2007 | Posts: 2,049 |
| Posted: | | | | Thanks for the info. Since I already have 2 DVD Players that are region free I really don't care that much about the DVD Part. It will play Zone A but does it play Zone B too? I don't wanna buy all discs in the US. | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 37 |
| Posted: | | | | No a Hong Kong player will only play zone A, BUT it is cheap, probably cheaper than a Dutch convert and you can add it to your zone B player as I have done so you can buy your BR discs wherever is cheaper. I have paid for this by lower US prices already so I am happy.. Yes none of us want too many machines but until Sony at least tacitally backs out of the Standard DVD zone nonsense which no longer makes any commercial sense, we are going to have to put up with this. A Blu Ray player from the States will need a transformer, (more cost) and they are not cheap. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Great Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/2.png) | Posts: 3,321 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting rokhopa: Quote: ...but until Sony at least tacitally backs out of the Standard DVD zone nonsense which no longer makes any commercial sense, we are going to have to put up with this. Sony (the hardware side) really has little to do with it. They've provided the means to enforce region coding. We just need the software people not to encode the discs. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here. Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 37 |
| Posted: | | | | It is not quite true that Sony have nothing to do with region coding. Their regular DVD players can easily be re-coded to 0, why not allow the same to happen to PS3s and other Blu Ray players. Is there anyone out there who does not have a region free standard DVD player either out of the box or via a simple re-code? Get real. I respect the studios wanting to zone Blu Ray discs but think Warner and others are just sensible to release all their BR discs as ABC at the present time. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Great Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/2.png) | Posts: 3,321 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting rokhopa: Quote: It is not quite true that Sony have nothing to do with region coding. Their regular DVD players can easily be re-coded to 0, why not allow the same to happen to PS3s and other Blu Ray players. I realize they can make region free players. But if the studios were asking for the feature, it wouldn't be there. The pressure should be put on the studios to stop region coding their software. Then we wouldn't have to buy special players or hack the ones we have. Quote: Is there anyone out there who does not have a region free standard DVD player either out of the box or via a simple re-code? I don't. ![](/images/emoticons/grin.gif) | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here. Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. |
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Registered: June 27, 2007 | Posts: 2,049 |
| Posted: | | | | It's true. It's the studios fault. With HD-DVD there was no problem. All discs were code-free. Sadly with blu ray all fox, buena vista and all new sony titles are encoded with region zones. Can anyone think of a sensible way to get studios to stop encoding them? | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Great Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/2.png) | Posts: 762 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Stephan.klose: Quote: Can anyone think of a sensible way to get studios to stop encoding them? Please, please, please, pretty please with sugar on top? Nah. Ain't gonna happen. Streetdates vary in each country, and studios want to sell in each country. If everybody starts importing the earliest release or (worse for them) the cheapest release, it would be impossible to sell anything. On the other hand, no release has every single subtitle or localized dub. Many people want to watch the movie reading or hearing their own language, so they won't buy imports anyway. Most consumers don't even know where to find them, and a large majority is still afraid to buy on the net. Region coding is one the main reasons why I haven't switched to bluray. That, and I'm not going to substitute my dvd's. I'm also not interested in the titles that have been and will be released on bluray. "But Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3 look soooooo much better on bluray!!", I hear you say. That may be, but I think they're s**t movies. You can't polish a turd, folks. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 811 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Stephan.klose: Quote: It's true. It's the studios fault. With HD-DVD there was no problem. All discs were code-free. Sadly with blu ray all fox, buena vista and all new sony titles are encoded with region zones. Can anyone think of a sensible way to get studios to stop encoding them? I hear a cashier's check with a lot of ZEROES behind the number has been effective ![](/images/emoticons/rolleyes.gif) |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 37 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm also not interested in the titles that have been and will be released on bluray. "But Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3 look soooooo much better on bluray!!", I hear you say. That may be, but I think they're s**t movies. You can't polish a turd, folks.
This may be true up to a point but some blu-ray releases of old movies look fantastic. 2001 for example. I have some 80 blu-ray discs and will never watch the SD version again of any of them. Yes some are better transfers than others but none are anything but clear improvements over SD, mostly by a huge margin. Once one has seen Blu Ray it is very hard to turn back. If a BD is in the works it is 'dont get the SD' for me. |
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