How to make your Panasonic Blu- ray player region- free - Home. Tech. Tell. It used to be that importing movies from other countries was incredibly difficult. You had to find an importer, who would usually charge you a gigantic markup, or somehow find an overseas source where the communication barrier wasn’t a deal- breaker. Then high exchange rates and month- long shipping times set in. When DVD became popular, the great equalizer materialized–the Apex 6. A DVD player. Not only could it convert PAL- NTSC signals, but it could be made region- free with a quick visit to a secret menu, and all of a sudden the world opened up. There was no disc I couldn’t play, and the Apex’s successors from a variety of Chinese- sourced OEMs kept me satiated for the last decade.
Region coding is used to protect the rights of companies that own a movie in a particular region. For example, Lord of the Rings belongs to at least 1. Each owns its own little piece of the pie, and so these purveyors naturally don’t want consumers buying someone else’s disc. Blu- ray’s regions are far less restrictive than DVD’s were, basically isolating us into the previous PAL and NTSC territories, with Region C probably most accurately labelled as “Pirateland.” With a few exceptions, the world has standardized on 1.
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But with the constriction of shelf space for home video in the U. S., sometimes we still need to go outside our borders to get those films we want, which are released months, even years earlier overseas. So with the original Battlestar Galactica released in Germany, I knew I had to do something. I could track down some of the Chinese- sourced players with secret menus, I could pay $1.
Panasonic - Sony - Pioneer Dvd 'Hack' remotes. Ironically the cheaper dvd players can be made multi-region with simple.
A technique has emerged to watch other region movies on a stock Panasonic Blu-ray player, without any modification or hacking beyond the normal remote.
Oppo or a special firmware hack, or, as I found out, I could trick my current Panasonic decks into jumping the wall. This has been tested on Panasonic 6. I’ve personally hit the 8. Try this at your own risk (though I can’t see how damage will occur).
No guarantees, promises or warranties are implied. Insert your region locked disc into the player. When the “Sorry, this is the wrong region” screen appears, press stop. Press the “1” key on your remote, then quickly hit “OK.”Depending on the disc, you may need to do this at the warning screen. Galactica for some reason sent a 5. Hz signal to the TV and screwed everything up if I hit stop. You have to do it fast, but I can tell you that the trick has worked reliably on the dozen discs I’ve tried thus far.
If all else fails,try mashing the pop- up and top- menu buttons, sometimes that greases the digital wheels. Unless you’re rocking a projector, it’s unlikely that your U. S. This is especially a problem on BBC releases like Sherlock. Orders from Amazon UK, France, and Germany can take 1. DNR’d versions of may New Line titles, the wonderful Masters of Cinema version of Silent Running, Weinstein- owned epics like El Cid and Fall of the Roman Empire, and heavily discounted and unreleased Warner and Universal box sets like Lethal Weapon, Police Academy, and Battlestar Galactica.
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