Page 1 of Bench KH6777 dvd player- Problems with a hack

I`ve tried the hack, opened tray, pressed 2812, menu popped up, with Regions highlighted. Unfortunately, when I press buttons 2 or 9- or whichever, to try to change regions, I get no response from the machine! (Macrovision was fine- could select that no problem, but regions remained stubbornly 2!)

Anybody got any thoughts? I`d appreciate them!

Use the left and right arrow keys to change the number, not the numeric keys :)

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Thanks for that, Clayt- I actually found out by accident that it`s the central button that does the changing, and that the left and right arrow keys change the three options for Region, Macrovision, and VCD, in the same way as the up and down keys!

I must say that, in Region 9 mode (Multi-Region?), I get a "No-Entry" sign quite often when I am using various controls, such as skip, fast forward, etc. Anyone got any thoughts on this?

The "no entry" signal denotes invalid operation - do the commands actually make sense (ie does it come up when you play the disc and press FF, or does it come up when there`s no disc playing and you press FF - if the latter, that`s why, as it`s an invalid operation; same as you can`t stop a disc or step forward if it isn`t playing !)

Failing that, you could just try setting the region for specific discs ?

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It works most of the time in multi region- mode 9, just get glitches from time to time.

As a matter of interest, why would you go to discrete regional modes- 1- 2 etc, when you can just stay in multi mode, once you`ve accessed it?

RCE :)

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This item was edited on Friday, 9th January 2004, 00:11

Sorry, Clayts,

That reply didn`t come through,

Tosh