hack & deleting section questions

[Tbag]

hi, i just recently got my Sony RDR-GX210 and im recording everything in sight, anyway i got some questions that i needed answering because i am not sure about them.

1) can i delete sections (chapters) from a dvd+rw disk without having to format the whole disk.

2) a cd is required for the hack for this model but if i was to not do it properly will the recorder get damaged or is it an easy thing to do so i cant even mess it up?

Thanks

[mats.hogberg]

1) can i delete sections (chapters) from a dvd+rw disk without having to format the whole disk.

No.

2) a cd is required for the hack for this model but if i was to not do it properly will the recorder get damaged

Yes

or is it an easy thing to do

Yes

so i cant even mess it up?

Who knows?


/Mats

[Tbag]

thanks for the help

[DOCDVD]

THE HACK POSTED FOR THIS IS BOLLOX-THE SITE IS IN WIGANESE+THERE AINT NO DOWNLOAD-ANY ONE ACTUALLY GOT THIS HACK???

[mats.hogberg]

Your caps lock key is stuck. You come thru as yelling.
The site is in Norwegian, not Wiganese. And no, I couldn't find any link either.
But did you read this:

Region code hack posted by Mike, September 22 2005:
This hack does not seem to work on later production probably as a result of Sony starting to use OTP memory instead of flash for cost reasons primarily.
(I haven't physically confirmed this , just used to what manufacturers do when they have a stable version of firmware)

You still get the codefree adjustment screen, but the player says it's changed but doesn't actually remember the change



Region code hack posted by keithnagle, September 30 2005:
I tried the above hack and have not been able to format DVD-RW discs since. Also results vary with +RW discs. Sometimes TV shows that have been taped simply disappear and other times when I try to format a disc that is full it fails after about 6 minutes. I cant be sure if it was as a result of the hack or if I just have a bad machine (I did not test DVD-RWs before applying the hack and had only used fresh out of the box DVD+RWs up to that point) the problems all came when I bought three different sets of -RWs including Sony brand and got an initialisation failure message after 30 seconds of formatting. Now it is behaving very strangely and I am considering sending it back. I would be reluctant to apply the hack to a new model though.



Region code hack posted by Nigel Goodwin, April 08 2006:
Just a point you might not know?, there are two completely different Sony RDR-GX210 models, the early ones have serial numbers starting 600 and the later ones start 650. They are totally different, different mechanisms and every PCB is different, so it may be that the mod only works on one of them?.

Even if you found the hack, it's possible you have a recent model, where it won't work anyway. Sonys are pretty unhackable these days. If you needed a region free recorder/player, why didn't you by one in the first place? That'd have been the safest way.

/Mats