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rjl24
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Joined: 15 Jan 2006
Location: Malta
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New LG LG BD 370 player with v 8 firmware.
Went to the hack link in this site and downloaded the current hack codes.
Burned them as correct ISO 9660 file with finalizing, onto DVD.
Since I have v 8 firmware figured why not attempt at first, and the dvd with the codes did not cause the region selection screen.
Have to go to older version firmware, says the hack page, via memory stick or CD and neither memory stick nor the dvd I made from downloading the v 7 firmware worked. The BD 370 did not seem to do anything with the file on the memory stick. And did not respond to the DVD once I inserted it.
I 'm not a total novice, but am baffled.
Thoughts anyone?
Simple step by step directions, please as I wish to make sure i get it right.
Most directions are right on, thanks in advance.
Cordially,
Robert
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HP Pavilion DV 6928notebook, LG 37 H 30,
LG BD 370 BluRay player
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jman98
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Joined: 08 Oct 2004
Location: Freedonia
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Manufacturers often change hardware during production and this can break hacks that worked in the past. This may have happened to you. If no one comes up with a hack that works for your hardware then it won't be region free.
Do note that very very few BluRay players can ever be made region free for DVD playback and you need to understand that prior to purchase.
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rjl24
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Joined: 15 Jan 2006
Location: Malta
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| jman98 wrote: |
Manufacturers often change hardware during production and this can break hacks that worked in the past. This may have happened to you. If no one comes up with a hack that works for your hardware then it won't be region free.
Do note that very very few BluRay players can ever be made region free for DVD playback and you need to understand that prior to purchase. |
Thanks greatly. My bafflement is only that others seem to have effected the hack for DVD's only, and I realize that BluRay may not or do not work with hacked region codes.
I have many DVD's iI accumulated while I lived in Europe, most are region 1 but some are region 2.
This particular LG player allows me to choose the location of something and in my case I have US selected: Setup> Lock> Area Code> US.
Don't even know what this means yet.
Thanks again for your quick response,
Robert
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HP Pavilion DV 6928notebook, LG 37 H 30,
LG BD 370 BluRay player
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jman98
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Joined: 08 Oct 2004
Location: Freedonia
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| rjl24 wrote: |
| jman98 wrote: |
Manufacturers often change hardware during production and this can break hacks that worked in the past. This may have happened to you. If no one comes up with a hack that works for your hardware then it won't be region free.
Do note that very very few BluRay players can ever be made region free for DVD playback and you need to understand that prior to purchase. |
Thanks greatly. My bafflement is only that others seem to have effected the hack for DVD's only, and I realize that BluRay may not or do not work with hacked region codes.
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My first sentence explains why. I'm not kidding when I tell you that some hacks are obsolete by the time you read about them due to hardware changes. Hollywood puts greater pressure than you can imagine on manufacturers to not make ANY players that can be made region free for ANY disc playback. We get reports all the time of hacks that don't work any more on models that are brand new. In fact, DVD region free playback violates the BluRay licensing agreement (yes, the official industry agreement covers DVD playback) and manufacturers are forbidden from making BluRay players that can made region free even for only DVD playback. That's why few BluRay players can do this. There are a handful of players that can be modified either in hardware or with unofficial firmware updates to do BluRay and DVD region free playback, but all such mods must be done by someone other than the manufacturer and none of these players are made by LG. The hack you found may well have worked on hardware that you can't get where you live or hardware that isn't available anywhere now. I also can't rule out that sometimes our hack postings leave out critical information that you need to make the hack work. I'm just making this up to illustrate a point, but suppose to enter a hack code you have to do 5 - Enter - 4 - Enter - 3 - Enter - 5 - Enter to make it work but the instructions only say to do 5435. Unless you stumble on the trick that you need to press Enter after each number, it will never work for you.
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