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Region Zero Hack

January 18th, 2004

Gotta love the net.

I wanted to play a DVD today that my wife had brought back from England, but my DVD player choked on it saying the disc is restricted to Region 2, whereas of course the DVD player is set for Region 1.

I hopped on Google with my cheap $59 DVD player’s model number and within two minutes, I had the instructions to permanently set my player to Region Zero (all regions) simply by using my remote control to enter a code.

Now I can play discs from anywhere. Woohoo!

7 comments to “Region Zero Hack”

  1. It’s funny how, in ways such as this, “$59 DVD Players” are a better buy over more expensive, name brands that don’t allow you to hack the region restrictions. I’ve also found that the “$59 DVD players” seem to support more formats like SVCD/VCD/CDRW/etc… than some namebrands like SONY.

         by MikeyC January 25th, 2004 at 5:08 pm

  2. What is the web address to find out how to permanently set your dvd player to region zero cos i cant find it when i type ‘region zero’ into google! Please help!

         by charlote September 27th, 2004 at 5:48 am

  3. I have a samsung v2500 DVD player. It was brought from abroad as a present. However I cant see any movies I neeed a region hack anybody.
    Thanks
    Riaz

         by Riaz December 10th, 2004 at 7:52 am

  4. Good Morning:
    I too have a $89 DVD player Yamakawa Model 218. (Japanese sounding, but madein China). I too got instructions to re-program to Region Zero and it’s been great for 2 years, BUT I screwed around and accidentally “un-programmed” it by doing something that I was specifically told NOT to do. i.e. “UNLESS YOU HAVE A PAL TV NEVER CHANGE THE TV T YPE SETTING IN THE SETUP MENBU”

    Now, how do I get back to Region Zero?
    Unfortunately, Yamakawa appears to be out of business and I’m stuck!

    Thanks for listening to my tale of woe.

         by Bob Meuse July 15th, 2006 at 1:02 pm

  5. For region hacks goto

    http://www.videohelp.com

    It’s a great site with DVD player ratings, hacks, etc etc..

    For the Yamakawa model goto this page in particular.

    http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.php?select=Yamakawa+218

         by LeJimster August 20th, 2006 at 9:06 am

  6. You can also find absolutely loads of dvd player hacks and massive forum at http://www.dvdhacks.co.uk which has been around for over 6 years!

         by Jonathon Rhys-Lewis October 9th, 2006 at 4:34 pm

  7. I need the instructions on how to work the whole setup. I bought a used yamakawa 218 it has the remote but no instructions. Please help!!

         by michelle October 15th, 2006 at 7:47 pm