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Almirena

Nov 7 2004, 07:52 AM

Dear friends, dear lovely people, please...! Any help on this?

My father's new laptop has the following inbuilt DVD-drive:

Matexcretory substancea DVD-RAM UJ-8205.

There are two region code switches left.

How can we make it region-free? We watch a lot of foreign films, and all my opera DVDs are imports, and so on. I can watch them on my DVD player, of course, but my father and mother want to be able to watch whatever they want to watch on that laptop computer.

I've done a search online, and while there are apparently quite a few options for most DVD drives, this one is tricky.

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Regional restriction (RPC II) works by not revealing the title key on CSS protected discs IF the region code of drive & disc do not match. Usually this brings up prompt to change region, but you only get to change drive five times before firmware locks it onto last region (Nero drive info tool will tell you present state). Regional free software works with a brute force attack on the scrambled sectors containing the title key. Unfortunately Matsuexcretory substancea (Panasonic) have exceeded the MMC standard on this drive by not allowing even the scrambled title key to be read. Few if any other drives behave this way which is why the software manufacturers often claim it will work with ALL DVD drives.

Helen

Nov 9 2004, 03:20 AM

I think you will have a tough time getting this updated firmware, as I don't think it exists.

I think if you look a little closer you will find the model number is UJ-820S, not UJ-8205. Matexcretory substancea drives are made by Panasonic as OEM equipment on many laptops. You could search around for new firmware, but I've done so and while there are many people searching for the same thing you are, I don't see where anybody has been successful.
Have you tried contacting the manufacturer of the laptop?
Sorry I can't be of more help.

You might consider using software such as THIS to get around the problem.

Almirena

Nov 9 2004, 12:49 PM

You're right, Helen... It IS Matexcretory substancea UJ-820S, not 8205...

I actually had come across that softare already, and it seems it won't work for this player, right?

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NOTE: DVD-RAM, Matexcretory substancea XX-8xxx, SW-9xxx series DVD drives, and Torisan DRD-Uxxx series DVD drives are not supported now, and there is no plan to support them. But you can watch and copy CSS encrypted DVD movies when the drive region and disc region is matched on these DVD drives.

This is the problem...

Of all the DVD burners/players for Toshiba to use, why did they choose THIS one????

Paladin Wizard

Nov 18 2004, 06:03 AM

Al, have you contacted Toshiba about this problem? They might have a fix. At the very least you can make the complaint and see if they'll compenstate you in any way.

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