sulimo Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 So with the original Samsung BR player it was originally multiregion but through a firmware 'upgrade' had the regioning system turned on. This has me wondering how long before we see a non-official firmware upgrade with turns the regioning system turned back off. And whether the same thing could be done with all the other players. At least non-PS3 ones...running on non official firmware there probably will be as much as a headache is it is with the PSP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momaw Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I was under the impression it was only a rumour that the first firmware update "added" region coding. I have yet to see evidence it was anything other than a rumour (very happy to be proven wrong). But either way, if it was region free previously, why in the 7 plus months since it was locked down has it not been hacked? And with 2nd gen machines from samsung on the horizon the window for it to be hacked is closing as attention will be passed onto this new model. We have seen from migranes experiments that region coding can be affected by the firmware (on the samsung), but why still have we seen no solution? I suspect it is too small an issue affecting to small a number of people for it to warrant the attention of hackers. Now the PS3 on the other hand with a large install base that is growing may get that kind of attention in the short-term and may end up being the first BD device to get it's region coding hacked successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betty boop Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 all I've read is of a 15 minute firmware process that allows to change region from one ot another. but nothing to say its able to be region free on blu-ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulimo Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 I was under the impression it was only a rumour that the first firmware update "added" region coding. I have yet to see evidence it was anything other than a rumour (very happy to be proven wrong). But either way, if it was region free previously, why in the 7 plus months since it was locked down has it not been hacked? And with 2nd gen machines from samsung on the horizon the window for it to be hacked is closing as attention will be passed onto this new model. That'll teach me to believe what I read on the intarweb. We have seen from migranes experiments that region coding can be affected by the firmware (on the samsung), but why still have we seen no solution? I suspect it is too small an issue affecting to small a number of people for it to warrant the attention of hackers. True. Most people with players probably are US people and all they'd care about is local discs as well as Japanese ones for the Japanophiles amongst them both of which are in the same region. Now the PS3 on the other hand with a large install base that is growing may get that kind of attention in the short-term and may end up being the first BD device to get it's region coding hacked successfully. Hopefully once the PS3 release in Region B countries settles a bit we'll see people handkerin for Region Mods and something might happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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