From: Ken Bawcom (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 15 2010 - 18:37:03 PST
Lundgren,
I just did some poking around on the AVS forum. For US versions, it
seems there are no firmware mods for the Oppo BDP-80, at least not
yet. However, there are for the BDP-83, but they are not listed in the
first post on the BDP-83 technical talk thread, although I previously
stated they were. So, you will have to use the search function to
locate such info. There are recent posts about recent region-free
firmware.
How this would apply to European versions of the Oppo BDP-83, I am not
sure. But, I believe it is someone in Europe who came up with the
region-free firmware mods for the US version. So, search that thread,
and you may find info on using firmware mods on European Oppos. If you
don't, don't be afraid to ask questions. The people there are very
helpful.
Ken B.
Quoting Lundgren <email suppressed>:
> Can the OPPO players be made region-free with only firmware mods?
>
> I thought all players on the market required hardware-mods.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Bawcom" <email suppressed>
> To: <email suppressed>
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: by Brakhage bluray
>
>
>> Unfortunately it seems that the "Blu-ray Disc Association" is far
>> more aggressive about enforcing the requirement that all Blu-ray
>> players be region encoded, so region-free Blu-ray players are
>> rather scarce. Many manufacturers who had made region-free, or
>> easily converted to region-free, DVD players are not doing that
>> with their Blu-ray players. Oppo, known for reference quality
>> players at reasonable prices, players that converted between PAL
>> and NTSC, and could easily be made region-free, now require
>> firmware mods, or physical mods, to be region-free. One reliable
>> source for modified players is JVB Digital.
>>
>> Ken B.
>>
>> Quoting Chuck Kleinhans <email suppressed>:
>>
>>> Blu-Ray regions are different than DVD regions. There's a fairly
>>> good discussion on Wikipedia: Blue-ray Disc.
>>>
>>> Chuck Kleinhans
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> "Those who would give up essential liberty
>> to purchase a little temporary safety
>> deserve neither liberty, nor safety."
>> Benjamin Franklin 1775
>>
>> "I know that the hypnotized never lie... Do ya?"
>> Pete Townshend 1971
>>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________________
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>
> __________________________________________________________________
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>
>
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"Those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty, nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin 1775
"I know that the hypnotized never lie... Do ya?"
Pete Townshend 1971
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.