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TARGA DR-5100x - Region Free code anyone?

alex - warwickshire (Harmless) posted this on Monday, 19th December 2005, 08:07

Hi there,
Anyone know if there is a region free remote hack for this player? I have had it for over a year now and still no joy getting it to Region free. :(
Thanks :)

RE: TARGA DR-5100x - Region Free code anyone?

Alpinegta (Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 22nd December 2005, 00:26

Exist or not the Region Hack for Targa DR-5100x

RE: TARGA DR-5100x - Region Free code anyone?

alex - warwickshire (Harmless) posted this on Monday, 6th February 2006, 08:25

Hi All,
Well what can I say but THANKS A MILLION to JimbobLink for pointing me in the right direction.
I purchased my Targa DR-5100X from Aldi Dec 2004 and have never been able to play R1 discs, and boy do I have a load of those.
Well I was wondering if as the firmware upgrade on the Targa site worked on the DR-5200X why not give it ago on my DR-5100X considering it was for the French. I downloaded the zip file to a folder and then extracted the .ROM file. Using Easy CD Creator I burned this to a blank cd and made sure it was burnt as a non multi session cd.
Put the cd into the player and let it do its stuff. (note there is an English readme.txt when you download the firmware upgrade) I unplugged the recorder from the mains waited 10 secs and then plugged everything back in. When I turned on the player after quickly removing the cd everything was in Fench but a quick look around and setting the player back to English sorted this out. I have tried R2 and R1 dvds and no problems. I have tried recording from TV and SKY no problems. I have tried Divix no problem. Photo CDs work and so do MP3 files.
Please note that a couple of R1 films needed the langauge setting to English in the DVD disc menu. But after checking again and again it works.
I would recommend people download the French firmware quickly before the Targa Engineers realise they have made the product R1 & R2 compliant.
I would like to take this oppurtunity in thanking JimbobLink for being brave and trying the firmware out on another model.

Hopefully all DR-5100X players will now be R1 & R2 compliant.

Please do not blame me if you ruin your player I followed the readme.txt instructions so make sure you do the same.

Good Luck..!!!
Alex

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