Region Free Blu-Ray Player in Australia?

[igg]

Thanks, I think I have the previous update stored somewhere, however I will send pioneer an email asking if it is safe to install the prev update and if by doing this will it remove the update that cancelled out the region free format.
As to having a region free chip installed in Australia I have been in touch with one guy in Melbourne and one in Brisbane but they are not interested in modifying your own player and all they want is to sell you one of their own modified players and they charge like wounded buffalos, whith the price they want it is cheaper to source one from Amazon, I am currently looking at one they sell called an ivid which has excellent reviews and I can get that landed here for around $220 AU or the local kogan model is available online for under $100 but I cant find out if they are any good.
I agree with you in regards to ripping these blu rays from overseas and what I do is rip to a hard drive using imagburn then play them back through a WD medis player, but with the new protection being put in by Sony it is becoming difficult to rip these discs to a hard drive.

[october262]

Thanks, I think I have the previous update stored somewhere, however I will send pioneer an email asking if it is safe to install the prev update and if by doing this will it remove the update that cancelled out the region free format.
As to having a region free chip installed in Australia I have been in touch with one guy in Melbourne and one in Brisbane but they are not interested in modifying your own player and all they want is to sell you one of their own modified players and they charge like wounded buffalos, whith the price they want it is cheaper to source one from Amazon, I am currently looking at one they sell called an ivid which has excellent reviews and I can get that landed here for around $220 AU or the local kogan model is available online for under $100 but I cant find out if they are any good.
I agree with you in regards to ripping these blu rays from overseas and what I do is rip to a hard drive using imagburn then play them back through a WD medis player, but with the new protection being put in by Sony it is becoming difficult to rip these discs to a hard drive.

in order to get past the sony protection, just use dvdfab to rip to your hard drive then transfer to either disc
media player or other device.

[igg]

Thanks, I think I stuffed up in telling you that I was having trouble in ripping blu rays to hard drive using imag burn, what I meant to say that I can rip the data to hard drive using "any dvd sly fox" however the sony protection creates problems in burning the data to disc from the data you have ripped to hard drive using "imag burn".
I have found the program "sly fox" to be excellent in decrypting blu ray and dvd to allow ripping to hard drive, this program is reasonably quick and they constantly keep upgrading the program to keep in front of the industry guys that are trying to prevent this ripping.

[igg]

Not much chance of downgrading. Quite often they update in such a way you can't go back. If you know the firmware version before updating you might be able to find it on a web site. I would check the crowd in Melbourne that do re-chipping then it's permanent.

I hardly ever use my BD player these days preferring to copy any new discs I get to my network so I only have the main movie without all the rubbish that precedes it.

I sent pioneer Australia an email explaining that since their last upgrade I am unable to play discs from other regions, they replied that they no longer handle this type of enquiry in Australia as it had been decided in Japan to source these enquiries and warranty work to an outside firm and they gave me the contact email address, I sent this firm an email and they replied that should I bring or send the player to them in Melbourne they would revert it to allow region free playing of dvd's, I replied that it wasnt dvd's that I wanted fixed but blu rays to which they replied that blu ray regions were locked in the factory in Japan before shipping and once set can not be changed, which means that I must have been confused in saying that my player originally was able to play blu rays and on thinking about it they may be correct and I may have been thinking about my Samsung player.
I had previously paid a joining fee to an English site called dvdcodes who stated that they could unlock blu ray region codes, but beware they could not unlock either of my players (pioneer or samsung) despite the waffle on of a guy called Paul who is a so called expert, and I told him that I believed the only way to unlock region codes on blu ray players was to change the chip, well didn't he carry on telling me that no that wasn't correct however he still can not tell me how to unlock either of my players to play blu rays from other regions, so BEWARE OF DVD Codes from the UK

[netmask56]

I use MakeMKV (purchased and registered version) to 'rip' the main movie from DVD's etc Sometimes I pass the resulting MKV through mkvmergegui to remove unnecessary languages and subtitles if present - I like to end up with just the video and audio track. I get hold of a SRT English subtitle track to marry with the MKV.