Page 1 of Cyberhome CH DVD 505 - Beginner needs help!

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

Just one easy soloution for this check your fimware version and read this page on this web site http://home.t-online.de/home/0306855728-00/CHindex1.html
and download the auto selection and region free software then no need to go into menue auto selection and RCE auto selection as well will not invalidate warranty .

OK, thanks for your help there, it`s much appreciated. However, as I am a beginner with DVD`s I would quite like to know if I can change it without installing amended firmware (which I am not confident in doing), so if anyone could tell me how to amend it through the remote control hack it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation....

John

....and I just noticed I have a different Chipset / Firmware to the ones on the link you gave me. My details are as follows:
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Player: ST Cinemaster - Build 2.10218
Driver Version: 4.1, Build 10666 - Configurable 1
Region Code 2
Drive Type: ATAPI - Type 0
Memory Config 8192KB SMI, 0KB EMI, 0
Audio DAC CS4362-3
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Additionally, I just noticed Config 6 from the secret menu says USA and Region 1, but it still plays my UK disc, just a bit less smooth. Is this correct?

I hope someone can pick all this up and put my mind at rest.

Thanks

you have a latter build read all the page it lists Build 2.102xx so you are covered use the 5519 config,code 6 is for region 1& 2 ,also if you do this conversion the player will out put purepal for pal discs and ntsc for ntsc