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I region hacked my 880 OK, but I understood it was possible to transfer NTSC tapes onto the 880. I have an NTSC video player, but when I connect up, the 880 displays the message WRONG DISC TYPE(PAL). Tansferring PAL tapes to DVD is fine. Can anybody help?????

you cannot mix pal & ntsc on the same disc. if there is a pal recording on the disc then that disc is pal only. the same goes for ntsc. hope this helps.

Jarvis.....many thanks, you have solved the problem...NTSC recordings work fine now...bigtall

HI CAN U TELL ME HOW U MADE YOUR PHILIPS DVDR 880 MULTI REGION.

Hi there..the best way to region hack the Phillips 880 is this:
1)You need to buy a ONE FOR ALL REMOTE 6 (£25 approx)
2) Make sure that the recorder remote control is set to DVD PLAYER and not the other option, "DVD recorder". You do this by selecting System on the remote and looking for the recorder/player remote option.
3)Using the ONE FOR ALL REMOTE 6 instructions, set up the DVD button with the code 0539.
4) Press the MAGIC button
5) Make sure the Phillips 880 is on, but with no disc in the tray.Enter the code 085 on yoyr One For All remote, aiming the remote at the Philips recorder. The display on the recorder now shows a series a dashes.
6) Using the number keys on the PHILIPS remote, enter the code 121 212 005 255
7) Presss the PLAY button on the Philips remote - aiming it at the machine.The display will show NO DISC
8) Power off the DVD player, wait 10 seconds and power up. THAT`S IT!!!!
THE PHILLIPS 880 WILL NOW PLAY ALL DVDs
Good luck..let me know how you get on.

HI THANKS A MILLION.I BOUGHT A ONEFORALL6 FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS AND IT WORKED MY PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDER IS NOW MULTI REGION.THE ONEFORALL6 REMOTE MAKES A DIFFERENCE.CHEERS

I have the philips 623 and i was just wondering will this method work on this player as well? Also did this remove macrovision?

Sorry, can`t say if this region hack will work for your player too. It didn`t remove macrovision..I have now a separate box for this..... bought some years ago..think it was from a company called Letropacks...something like that...they advertised it as a box to clean up & stabilise video copies...and allows you to copy library films...think they still advertise in either What Video ot What Satellite. Hope this helps. BigTALL

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