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RE: CINEA SV300

Apologies for my double entry book keeping!

RE: CINEA SV300

Unlike last year when I had to return four faulty machines to Hungary my machine has worked well on the current screeners. However, it would still be great to get the thing region free so I`m reopening the discussion. BAFTA & AMPAS members, any new thoughts?

I read somewhere that this very expensive screener operation by Cinea was essentially a marketing exercise to establish the brand name for wider encryption usages and that the screeners are relatively small potatoes.

This item was edited on Monday, 22nd January 2007, 08:16

RE: CINEA SV300

Unlike last year when I had to return four faulty machines to Hungary my machine has worked well on the current screeners. However, it would still be great to get the thing region free so I`m reopening the discussion. BAFTA & AMPAS members, any new thoughts?

I read somewhere that this very expensive screener operation by Cinea was essentially a marketing exercise to establish the brand name for wider encryption usages and that the screeners are relatively small potatoes.

SONY RDR HXD 1065

This is a new SONY machine that`s come to me region 2. I have tried using the SONY 500 hack as given on page 77 but have succeeded only in creating a mess. I now have a remote set (I think) to Command mode DVD3 and a player set to DVD1, so they`re not talking.

Can someone please tell me how to return the player to DVD1 if all else fails?

And equally will they explain what and where, on point 7 of the Hack, is the "option for the Command-Mode switch, under the sliding cover". What sliding cover? Where is it? It doesn`t figure on the remote I have.

Much gratitude!

RE: CINEA SV300

My apologies to you all for the extreme tardiness of this acknowledgement and reply but I`ve not thought about Cinea (thank god) for the past year, but that time has come around again!

It`s strange. When I upgraded in `05 my first machine did begin to play Region 1 as well as Region 2. Then it went down - this in the middle of the screeners period - and when after FOUR more attempts to get a working machine (with constant returns to Hungary) the final one was again only Region 2. Some half dozen encoded screeners I could never play when I needed to, so this dreary machine has affected voting choice. The Cinea call center seems populated by polite automata.

The Film Committee allegedly is making efforts to have these things made multi-region - but I wouldn`t hold your breath. It`s all nonsense anyway. Just how many AMPAS and BAFTA screeners have engendered piracy? Would someone please quantify?

RE: CINEA SV300

Cinea themselves have recently upgraded and expanded the machine and it`s now multi-region so all is well.

RE: Daewoo DF 8150 multi region hack needed. Australia bound

Please scrub my former post - I was complicating life for myself. The hack is done and works a treat, so thanks to whomsoever!

RE: Daewoo DF 8150 multi region hack needed. Australia bound

I`ve just acquired the DF8150 and tried the given hack. I can get to the System Info page but have found it impossible to navigate down to the DVD setting. Can anyone please advise? Many thanks -

CINEA SV300

The Cinea SV300, from a Dolby company, is a DVD player incorporating proprietary technology encoding "screeners" for AMPAS and BAFTA members and has been distributed to all their members, each member receiving an individual traceable machine, as will be the coded discs (which will be region free). It`s also a regular player and region based depending on where the member is. The players are made in the Phillipines.

Since the relevant numbers are relatively so small I would imagine the basic box can be hacked. And it`s a pain these days to have a machine that`s for general purposes is region restricted so I`m wondering if any resident genius yet has had experience with how to expand it.