Page 1 of Pacific 1001 Muti-Regional????????????????

I have recently bought a couple of these machines for my kids for Xmas, they play DVD-r and DVD+r, but I`m having dificulties playing region 1 discs, when you get the FBI warning at the start of films the screen freezes and thats wher it ends.
does it need a hack or anything?
my TV is definately NTSC compatible so thats not an issue, any help would be greatly appreciated.
cheers Rich

The unit is MR out of the box, the only thing I can think off is that you are trying to watch RCE discs in which case the player needs to match region for the DVD, thats easy if you know the codes to get to change them.

I assume you had another player before this one & they played on a all regions setting.

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 19th November 2003, 12:51

thanks for the reply...
I have absolutely no idea what RCE means, I`m guessing at regional coding encryption or something like that????
anyway, probably shouldn`t say this, but i have Finding Nemo which is a stunning copy that plays ace on my Wharfedale 750, so do all my Buffy region 1 discs, also my copy of Jackass that was bought from CDWOW when it was only available as a region 1, now when i try and play any of these discs on the Pacific I get either a rolling screen, or the screen freeze when the piracy warning appears.
any ideas?

just try stopping it before the warning screen appears.
then press play.
the only thing you have to remember is that the 1001 is discontinued,and not every disc plays in every player.
i dont think Finding Nemo is RCE.
as that IMO is really only used by columbia tristar,and sony(one in the same).
well most of my RCE discs are columbia.
try the 1002(W) hacks,see if they work.
the 1001 was discontinued a few months ago,and so was the schneider 857,i think thats the model.
asda just seem to be sticking the last few in stores that will sell them.
they stopped selling them near me,as most people bought the 1002.

Region Coding Enhancement - A Region 1 disc will only play in a Region 1 DVD player, if its hacked to read all regions or is set at Region 2 (for arguments sake) it will display a message saying "this is a Region 1 disc in the wrong region, please buy the correct DVD for your region" obviously I am paraphrasing here.

If they worked in other machines without trouble I would say they are not RCE & you may have a couple of icky machines (duff batch perhaps or earlier firmware) get a refund & get something else.


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