Panasonic DVD players made region/macrovision free without physical mods (some) - Page 2

Hi everyone,

my name is Bruno an I am writing to you from France. I intend to buy a RP 91 or rp 82, do not know where to buy it. Since I am living in france I try to find a place to buy it! or someone xould kindly sell me a player?

I was quite impressed by your search?
I also have to make my dvd player region free and macro off since I get one!

Hope reading you soon.

Regards
Bruno

I post another thread Under "RP56 and DTS". Did anyone out there with the RP56 has similar problem after updating the firmware but "lost" the DTS capability? Any fix?

Thanks.

lenny

Sango advised me to reset the audio for DTS using the "Action" button on the remote. Duh!

lenny

just found this thread. it seems to have become way off topic.

if anyone who origionally posted about getting the service disk #2, did you get it and did it work for the rp-91?

if it did i would like to know how to get one and do this to my -91.

I just did the macrovision part on an RP-91 and it worked great. I just reduced the overscan on my set and in the progressive mode I found wavy lines in the top part of the picture (<5% overscan). Turning off the macrovision made them go away.

I'm in the same boat. I followed directions to order the service disk and never got a response.

Any updates on a source?

R

I would love to have access to this service disk as well. Anyone who has it feel generous and share with us?

buddies,

CAn RP82 show blacker than black line inside Video Essentials?

Using a friend in Australia, I acquired the disc, and received it Saturday. I just tried it on my RP-91 and I have been unsuccessful. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems pretty straight-forward.

Has anyone else had success using this service disk to get region-free capability on the RP-91?

Imp66, what firmware version are you running on your RP91?

Firmware 2.59. FYI, I tried this on two different RP-91's, both with 2.59 firmware, but different mfg dates.

Bummer, I was gonna buy another RP91 to do this too.

Is it an original Panasonic disc or a copy? If a copy it has to be on an 'authoring' dvd-r and not a 'general' dvd-r. Big difference.

The disc I used came directly from Panasonic Australia. I have a friend in Australia, so I emailed Panasonic and gave them his address. He then mailed it to me.

ALV posted:
I just did the macrovision part on an RP-91 and it worked great. I just reduced the overscan on my set and in the progressive mode I found wavy lines in the top part of the picture (<5% overscan). Turning off the macrovision made them go away.

I'd like to hear from him/her about how they got it to work.

I mean, if there is something else to do except run the disk, I'd like to know. There are no new options in the menu or anything. Inserting a Region 2 disc gives me the same message as always.

SANGO:

Have you actually tried this? After entering the password, both my units go to a black screen, flash the screen a couple of times, then say "READ" on the player for a second, then it goes to the typical DVD screen and says STOP.

Is there anything else that should be happening?

I just followed instructions - too less than one minute. As soon as I finished I tested for the wavy lines and they were gone. I don't have any non region 1 disks so I didn't try to see if that took but I assume it did. I have software version 250. I don't play MP3's so I didn't upgrade to 259.

Sorry for the off-topic post but it's been awhile since I looked at firmware upgrades for the RP-91.

Can someone point me towards the ISO. Also, any threads that talk about the reasons people prefer one version over another would be much appreciated.

Thanks

I went here:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~hdtvguy/firmcheck.htm

to get the firmware 2.50 (they also have 2.59), but it will not install an older firmware apparently. If anybody has any clues on how to force it, I'd be happy to listen.

haha, i was just curious and clicked into this thread (i dont even have a panasonic DVD player), and guess what...

Im from RICHMOND too!! Small world lol... We should hav a Richmond AVS Meet

Anyone in Toronto have this disc? I have an RP91.

Hi Sango,

Do you succeed? Is the disk #2 useful?

So, it looks like the consensus is that the disc doesn't work on the RP-82? I'm sure I know the answer to this - but has anybody gotten it to work on a CP-72? I was going to go beg DrJoe to see if I could borrow his disc, but it doesn't sound like it's worth it now.

Sango, since i have a denon 1600 i entered into the setup menu, and all i can see is: 'menu perference" with 4 options, "english, french, spanish and other" choosing "other" requires the user to enter a 4 digit password, i didn't have to enter the sequence of number you listed. I believe this to be the avenue to load the disc. So there is no way to make a copy of the disc without the dvd burner you describe, Have you tried using dvd decryptor to rip the files to the hard drive then burn to disc. I am sorry if i am missing something about copying the disc.
blair

Sango do you have the part number for service disc 2? I could check with our Panasonic rep to see if they have it under their parts & services division. Thanks.