RE: OT: Motherboards

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I was just intreagued by Scan claiming that their Hollywood Plus card was
region free! (I had to do all this driver rubbish with my Creative Labs
DXR3
setup but that only works under Win 95!)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 June 2001 23:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Motherboards
>
>
> Sorry guys.. yeah, it's moved....
>
> http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/dvd/dvd.htm
>
> is the definitive firmware site...
>
>
> The Holywood PLus is not region free, but the hacks to make it so are
very
> well known.
> get yourself a copy of remote selector, or Zone Selector 4.1 and
> all will be
> well :)
>
> Ian.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Motherboards
>
>
> >
> > > I assume you mean drive? All drives are now RPC-2 locked.
> Have a look at
> > > www.firmware.be to ake sure an RPC Patch is available for
the
> drive you
> > get.
> > > I have a RICOH 4-way combo which rocks. (12xWrite, 8
> re-write, 40x CDR,
> > > 4xDVD) You missed any CDR capablity on your spec, which I
would
> > > not want...
> >
> > Are you sure about that web address? I bought a Samsung SD-612
from Scan
> and
> > I'm trying to find the firmware update to make that RPC-1 -
> there's one on
> > Erwins VisualDomain page www.visualdomain.net for the Creative
badged
> > version of the Samsung but it doesn't work on the Samsung
version.
> >
> > I also bought the RealMagic Hollywood plus from them as on their
today
> > specials page it was flagged as region free but I have a masty
feeling
> from
> > simply reading the bumph that it isn't! (It's looking like it's
> the usual
> "5
> > changes and that yer lot".)
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
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