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Bought a pacific 1002 player in December and have tried loads of different hacks since but still can`t make it region free, Does anyone know a hack that might work or has anyone had the same problem?

The current stock of 1002 can certainly be made region free using:
1 ) Eject and leave tray open and empty.
2) Press `clear`
3) Press ` 1 3 6 9 0` for regionfree or 13691 or 2 for regions 1 and 2 respectively.
Thats it: job done

They also play VCD, SVCD, XSVCD, miniDVD at 4000 bps( Mico players though otherwise good can`t cope with this data rate which I find ideal for putting Hi8 camcorder tape onto CD without any obvious loss of detail. You get approx 20 mins 720 X 526 interlaced video on an 80 min CD. ). Also plays JPEG stills mixed in with MP3 files or as a straight `dump` from a digital camera onto a CD

The present model of the 1002 ( £ 59.97 ) although outwardly the same as the earlier model uses a different chipset, is better constructed internally and has a better firmware than the earlier one.

So !, if your December deck doesn`t do all these things take it back for a refund ( perhaps of £ 69.85 ) and get the current one which is ten pounds cheaper anyway.

I am not aware of any Macrovision disable, probably not possible with the later type of chipset but for me that is not a big issue and I have been well pleased with mine.
Good luck
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Hi

Having read your information on the Pacific 1002 hack yesterday, I went to Asda near the new stadium in Manchester, and they had these newer dvd`s in stock so I bought one. It only cost £59.97 I took it home and input the above hack and it worked straight away. So thank you for posting this information. A very happy person.

Jackie

Hi Jackie, Pleased you are pleased and that the posting was of help to you. Images.

Hi - sounds good, can anyone tell me if this Player will play DVD-R or DVD+R discs (or both or neither).

Thanks

`fraid I have no DVD R or RW discs either+ or - to do any testing,
But quoting www.vcdhelp,com they list its capability as -R, -RW ,+RW but perhaps not +R although one of the reviews (13 Jan 2003) does say it can read +R as well as +RW.
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this machine will play a frisbee if you put it in,it plays both dvd-r and dvd+r.i`ve never had it spit a disc out yet and i`ve got all kinds of discs.

I`VE FOUND THE 1002 MODELS THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED AFTER XMAS WON`T PLAY DVD+R

So, to get this straight, I go to ASDA today, buy one of their Pacific 1002 DVD players for £59.97 - which their sales staff say is region 2 without the ability to play VCDs... I open the draw, type a code in, shut the draw and then - as if by magic - it will all work?

Surely, it will also not affect the warrenty as you are not opening the system up or anything, you are merely typing a code in?

so you get a stupidly useful system for under 60 pounds... Am I missing something here?

This sounds rather exciting ;-)

Mike

Have just purchased one of these - and it does all you say. Brilliant!
Reviews say it plays Kodak Picture Cds as well - but mine wont. Do I need to do something to make it do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.