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Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

the_godfather (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 2nd February 2001, 15:03

I have just ordered a remote control from dvdlibrary.co.uk who assure me that by pressing two buttons my Hitachi 305 will be multi region and RCE compliant.Its cost me £25.00 and will hopefully arrive next week.

Do any of u Hitachi guru`s expect me to have any difficulty reading any R1 dvds and therefore can I start to hammer my credit card and purchase films at will? I couldn`t resist to buy X-Men and have ordered that already, but should I wait till the remote arrives? I know it sounds stupid but I`ve gone DVD crazzzzzy!!!!!

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

Mike G (Elite) posted this on Friday, 2nd February 2001, 19:32

For £25.00, I sincerely hope you got a money-back guarantee :-)

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

Jimbo :oÞ (Elite Donator) posted this on Friday, 2nd February 2001, 23:02

Errr....a remote to hack the 305?
Thats the Sammy 511 clone, innit?

Therefore..hackable from it`s OWN remote!!
Try the duke..he`ll know all about it!
http://www.theironduke.plus.com/HitachiSyndicate/

AIWA 370 (officially) ROCKS!!!!!!

This item was edited on Friday, 2nd February 2001, 23:09

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

Mike G (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 3rd February 2001, 09:25

Many versions of the 305 firmware (4.02 for example) will not work with the Samsung "own remote" hack. I assume Godfather tried this hack already.

Personally I`d get the firmware changed to a hackable version rather than faff about with a third-party remote, but some people prefer to leave the guarantee intact...

Mike G
Samsung Firmware Page - http://www.709firmware.fsnet.co.uk/

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

the_godfather (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Saturday, 3rd February 2001, 10:06

Remote arrived this morning and the instructions see to work. I pressed the buttons and th word ADJUST appeared and the tray opened up.

Unfortunately my first Region 1 DVD has yet to arrive from DVD BoxOffice but can I presume that if I`ve got this far then it will work???

Godfather

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

the_godfather (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 5th February 2001, 08:14

Panic over. Remote hack worked great and so does R1 DVD. Yippeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Godfather

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

jeremi (Harmless) posted this on Wednesday, 7th February 2001, 18:20

I`ve a Hitachi 305 too, and the hack I found on this site doesn`t work at all.

I have two questions:

1) Is this the remote control that works: http://www.dvdlibrary.co.uk/r-mod.htm?

2) how can I know the firmware version of the my player?

Thanks
Jeremi.

RE: Will I have any grief with Hitachi 305 remote hack??

Mike G (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 8th February 2001, 11:53

You can check the firmware by opening your player and looking at the EPROM chip at the back right corner. It has a label on it which will say something like:

DV-P305E
VER 4.05 <---- This is the firmware version!
SD.2000.09.04

The older firmware versions for the 305 (e.g. 4.02 and 4.03) don`t have the hack. You may be able to use a 511/611 firmware instead, see my site for details:

http://www.709firmware.fsnet.co.uk

Mike

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