From: Lundgren (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 15 2010 - 03:19:49 PST
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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