After unzipping, burn this to a CD as data and finalize. Do not burn as an image or make it bootable.

Use at your own risk.

My Region 3 DV10 is now region free.

You have made my day... I cant wait to try this out. I currently work in Germany and purchased the DV10 from Amazon.de I completely forgot about the Region coding thing. All of our DVDs are from the US. What a disappointment...this weekend was. I hope this works....will let you know

You've got balls to mess with firmware on $1K system. Glad it worked for you.

I have installed the software on a CD and yes, I can confirm this information does work. My Optoma DV10 is now region free. I confirmed by playing DVD's purchased in Germany as well as the US. Everyone is happy ! :) :)

hi,

just wanted to know if there's only one file in the zipfile?
do u just burn it on a cdrw for instance and load it?
what's the exact procedure u did so it worked?
thx

I'm considering using the firmware hack tsb posted for region free, but a bit nervous. Can anyone who's tried it please report:

Has applying the hack produced any weird firmware glitches?

In particular, do you have the sound issue, where sometimes with DVDs the machine's sound disappears until it is unplugged and restarted? Or do you get subtitles on all DVDs by default?

I'd also love to hear any information about what the .bin file does and where it came from.

thanks.

I just made my DV10 region free - SWEET!
Here is how I did it:
1) Downloaded and extracted dvdrom.zip to folder "Optoma DV10"
2) Opened Cheetah DVD Burner - Selected "Start>Data CD Burner"
3) Added "dvdrom.bin" to the layout first
4) Added a folder with 50MBs of PDF files to the layout - for padding
5) Added folder "Optoma DV10" - for good measure
6) Burnt CD-R at 4x
7) Switched on DV10
8) Inserted CD-R - waited for DV10 to read
9) DV10 indexed the CD-R
10) Message appeared "Smart Update - Upgrade to v2.06CTX-010" with 20 second countdown
11) I did nothing, it counted down to 0 seconds
12) Message appeared "Upgrading"
13) I did nothing some more
14) The DV10 switched itself off
15) I visited the little boys room :)
16) I removed the CD-R
17) I switched on the DV10 and VOILA it is region free :)

Hope this helps someone...

The ZIP file link is not working any more :-(

could anyone please post the file again?

cheers

I just dowloaded this and it worked. I downloaded from the provided link and burnt the single unzipped .bin file to a CD, using Toast on a Mac.
Twenty seconds in the projector and......

The Mighty Boosh played flawlessly!

Thanks for the post.

Does this firmware work in any dv10 projector? Bought in the US for example (or just the european version)? Thanks in advance!

does anyone have this dv10 region crack to post as zip file here does not respond. thanks

does anyone have this dv10 region crack to post as zip file here does not respond. thanks

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hi-im using roxio digital media on my vaio-but i dont know how to finalise-does it matter?also im using a dvd-r does it have to be a cd-r?
thx

Amen to all the helpful people here - my setup went a little differently though:

I downloaded the zip, unzipped the .bin, burnt it on a CD using the Mac's standard burn utility, and popped it into the DV10. Saw the prompt, waited for the countdown, and then the DV10 cycled through the sources to come back to the countdown (started again from 20). Not wanting to take a chance, I let it go through it again. Then once it went through to 0 and started cycling sources again, I popped the CD out as per the tip in the screen (bad English), popped in a region 2 DVD, and it worked! No need to re-start the Dv 10 etc.

Thanks everyone who gave the tips and the endorsements for making life a lil easier for everyone else. I for one was holding my breath as I was doing this after that "risk your $1k firmware" comment. Phew...

Cheers.

excellent!!! thanks guys this worked a treat

tip: i used nero for writing the disk and put the file in folder marked optoma dv10 and burned the data in cd rom mode.

hope other people out there find this useful.

the new file was put in rong forum that is for another player sorry for confusion it has now been deleted
this rom file is all that is needed for optoma dv10 making multi zone



wing-chun@o2.co.uk

how long does it take normaly it want off as they said it wood but disc wood not come put it back on nuthing can any plez help thanks

I used the dvdrom.zip file 2 years ago (THANKYOU tsb and trinidex), it was straightforward, it made my DV10 region free, and I had no problems at all since. What's in that new scarlet.zip file WINGCHUN, why a new file?

xTOXxx, if you're saying the disc wouldn't come out, then you weren't upgrading an Optoma DV10 (maybe you have a DV11?) In which case, you may have to send it for repair.