Page 1 of Philips HDRW720 Region Hack?

Thinking of buying the above HDD/DVR recorder. Is this region hackable? Does the standard Philips `One for All` hack work?

Cheers 8)

This item was edited on Thursday, 27th May 2004, 22:02

nick, i don`t know about the standard philips one, but this worked for me...

-ensure no dvd is inside
-press "disc menu" button
-press "play" button, then 159
-you will see lines in the display
-press 121212 005255 then the "play" button again
you should be codefree at that point

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=176&Thread=315265&Type=1

This hack worked for me !
Thanks.

Thanks for the info, I`ve bought one of these and the hack works, except with region 1 RCE discs. Do you know of an RCE friendly multiregion hack? Or is it at least possible to hack to region one so that RCE discs will work?

Thanks,

Nick M :/

Hey there,

Anyone know if this hack still works with the new software Philips released a couple of days ago? I`d like to know before I install the new software ;-)

Thanks for your reply,
S

I just install th new software and it works for me. Tks for the tip.
I am looking for a code to remove the macrovison... Anyone can help ?
Tks to email me to :

bup_jnXXXXX[at]XXXXXten.etsopal

More on the HDRW720 and RCE. RCE discs can be played of you input the code `121212005001` (i.e. if you make it region 1). However, you still have to enter `play 1 5 9` to get here and, as with other Philips machines, the region may lock after 25 changes (I`ve not tested this!). The `one for all` method of getting to the code inputting stage does not work. There may be a different codeset for doing this, please let me know if you know how to do this.

I`ve found a partial solution to the RCE problem. With the player set to multiregion, if while the RCE disc is loading you press `select` then `return` on the remote control it will play the disc sometimes: in fact it will play an RCE disc using this method every one in five attempts. I have no idea how to make this work every time, or if this is possible. Also, once you`ve done this for a particular disc, if you put it in again the auto resume feature restarts play from the previous point and you can then replay it. Note that if you do this and go to any of the menus you will get the `RCE` screen and have to take the disc out and start again. This works with both versions 1.6 and 2.6 of the firmware.

Any comments/ suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick M

This item was edited on Wednesday, 27th October 2004, 22:56