AnyDVD or AnyDVD HD

[Tbag]

Hi, I have a Matshita BD-CMB UJ-120 drive on my laptop still with 4 changes region changes left but if I was to use all my changes would AnyDVD/HD be able to make it region free?

Does anyone know if it works on my drive bacause I heard some drives cant be opened/hacked or whatever its called?

[hech54]

AnyDVD is not a hack so a hack and AnyDVD have nothing to do with each other.

Yes....AnyDVD will work with your laptop.
There is also a free alternative that I hear works pretty well too.

[Tbag]

Is that for sure because I was reading that it doesn't on some Matshita drives

[wtsinnc]

Hello Tbag.

If I was looking on this website for software to do what you want, I might go to the Tools section and type in the word "region" in the search box.

[ricoman]

I have a Toshiba laptop with a Matshita drive and AnyDVD works fine with it.

[Tbag]

thank everyone, one more question

If I have 4 changes left and install AnyDVD then if I play a different region disk will the changes go down to 3 even though AnyDVD is installed?

[Baldrick]

Nope, it shouldn't change.

Try the trial!

[Tbag]

thanks, will do

[HemLok]

There are no issues with Matshita BD drives and AnyDVD HD other than the fact that Matshita drives tend to be cheap junk. BD region coding is completely different than SD DVD region coding. The drive isn't even involved when it comes to BDs region coding. You should have no problem dealing with BDs and I would advise you to not use a BD drive to do normal SD DVD stuff, anyway.

In terms of dealing with SD DVD region codes I suggest referring to an explanation given by a Slysoft developer:

AnyDVD works with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives, as long as:

1.) The drive is set to a specific region code. If your drive isn't, set your preferred region.
2.) CSS protected discs match this region

AnyDVD does not allow you with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives to watch or copy a CSS protected disc, which has a different region then the drive, unless you have a patched firmware. (AnyDVD allows this with every other drive)

The reason is rather simple:

MMC standard requires, that a drive should not reveal a title key on a region mismatched CSS protected disc. (It should return "Illegal request - region code does not match"). Some drives are even less restrictive and even give you the title key on region mismatch. But AnyDVD can usually reveal the title key with a brute force attack, as long as the drive allows you to read the scrambled sectors. Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do not! You CANNOT read the scrambled data, if the region code doesn't match. No other drive behaves this way, only Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do, as the standard does not require a drive to not reveal the protected data on region mismatch, but Matsushita (Panasonic) drives are more restrictive as they need to be.

There is nothing AnyDVD, DVDDecrypter, or any other software can do about this. Sorry.

Solution: Set the drive to a region, and only use matching discs. AnyDVD will remove CSS/Macrovision/Adverts/User prohibitions/forced subtitles/FBI warnings/... no problem.

It cannot bypass region codes with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives.