When doing the Samsung permanent hack, I found that when you insert a region 1 disc after switching off, it fails to ask you for the parental lock, I have tried this with over 15 titles, whether or not these films haven`t got the parental level on them ??? Anyway, a way around this problem is.....Load the region 1 disc and when you can, goto the setup screen on the player and access the parental level function, you have to enter the password (which should be 3521) then you can change the staus to `unlocked`, I found that even after a hard power off, it still accepts region 1 without having to go through the malarkey of entering the hack every time....!!!