Last night, in the middle of the night actually, just when we needed
to calm Sebastian down in front of the Teletubbies DVD, we discovered
the player wouldn't work. All discs we tried were giving a "Disc
region incorrect" error. We ended up watching Animal Planet which
eventually calmed him down. (Sebastian was suffering from a
'pseudo-kroep' attack -> I have no idea what that is in English).
Anyhow, I vowed to get the DVD player fixed ... as it was obviously a
software error ... probably brought on by the kids mucking about with
the DVD player and remote.
Well, after an hour of searching, I can confirm that the following
'multi-region' hack works on our Toshiba SD-570SR2 DVD player:
1. Power up the player;
2. Open the tray;
3. Enter 24039609 and press Enter (using the remote);
>> Immediately a number 9 appears in the top right of the screen,
momentarily.
>> You should now be region free.
Notes:
Thanks to "BrianPK":
http://www.avforums.com/forums/dvd-player-hacks/508285-toshiba-sd370e-6.html
(And by the way, I didn't respond in the forum as I'm not (and don't
want to be) a member).
Regarding the Toshiba SD-570SR2, it seems to have been created for the
Russian market, judging by the Google search results. Otherwise a fine
player and it (ours) has a standard multi-region capacity (a 5 logo at
the back).
Gegroet. Paul.
