region free codes please: HL DT ST DVD RAM GSA T20N

[rjl24]

My new HP DV 6928 comes with a LG: HL-DT-ST DVD GSA T20N WITH FIRMWARE OF WCO5.

wish to make this a region free dvd player.

Please advise codes.

Cordially,
Robert
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HP pavilion DV 6928, notebook, Intel Centrino 2.0 Ghz,
3gb ram, 250 gb HD, notebook with internal HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GAS T20N (LG brand I think) external (USB 2.0), hitachi 250 GB external HDD (2.0 usb), windows Vista Home premium.
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[Baldrick]

It's not a standalone dvd player. Moving you to our dvd writers section.

PLay with VLC media player or install dvd43 or anydvd and you wont have any region problems.

[jman98]

DVD writers do NOT have "codes" to make them region free. The only way to do that is to replace the firmware - IF (and it's a big "if") there is a replacement region free firmware available.

I found this to link to firmware for your player, but since the download is all in Japanese, I can't tell if this is region free firmware or normal firmware from LG.
http://files.rpc1.org/index.php?act=view&id=5550

In the past it was a lot easier to get region free firmware from this site. It has changed a lot since I last looked at it and it's changed for the worse.

[rjl24]

Thanks very much to both of you. I realize that region codes are for playback, but did not realize that DVD writers/ Players do not have unlock codes. I attempted to watch a DVD last nght, and was asked by the default media player, to set the region: region 1 for US. So naturally I suspected that I might be able to make this region free as not I have only 4 changes left. Thanks again.