sony 5oo help

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have just bought a second hand 500 u burner but its locked on region have used latest firmware and have tried all sorts of region killers but no joy

[w00tski]

yep its probably locked onto that last region
not much you can do about it YET, but just grab a cheap dvd-rom drive like a liteon.
Ive had my dru500a for about 5 months and i havent even set the region on the drive yet. Why? Cause i dont really need to. Its ripping speed of dvd is quite crap at 2x dvd-video or 4x dvd-r, where as the liteon can hit 16x on single layer disc, or 8x on dual layer disc, as well as climb into the 10x region on dvd-r discs... MUCH MUCH faster and no wear on the expensive dvd writer. And the dvdrom drive is region free. Win Win if you ask me