Page 1 of Please help with my Cyberhome 505 Hack problem.....

I have just bought my first DVD player (the above model). The bloke in the shop (Richer Sounds - a knowledgable chain I believe) said I could put in a multi region hack by pressing "MENU, 1, 1, 1, 1 and changing CONFIG to 9". However the config field won`t let me change it to 9. I can change it to 1, 2, 3, 4 (and onwards, but the screen starts jumping about when I get to 5, 6 and 7 as if I`m changing the viewing settings) and in turn it changes the "Region" field to 1 number higher than what I enter in the config field (ie, if I input 1 in config, region changes to 2).

When it is set on config 1 (therefore region 2) is displays "Germany" next to the country field. When I change it to anything else it displays "UNKNOWN" next to the country field. I have tried to set it to config 1, 2 or 3 and it seems to play the only DVD I have (which is a for the region local to England, whatever one that is) on all of the config`s fine. This makes me believe it may not have any difference between the config settings and therefore cannot be set to read USA discs. I cannot change the config to "0" either.

As I say, I am a total beginner and I have spent ages looking into DVD players before settling on this one, if anybody can help I`d be most grateful.

If you can`t understand what I`m waffling about, please mail me and I`ll try and tell you what you need to know.

Thanks,

John