I've been introducing a lot of fur more
hacking lately I've explained chdk as
well as Rockbox in previous segments
today I want to do DVD player region
unlocking now we've done some stuff with
region and locking on other devices in a
cert in a certain way like you know with
the Wii and other game consoles and I've
explained that region region control
it's really you know what it's just
another form of electronic communism a
digital divide away from corporations
that tell you what you can and can't do
with your hardware a perfect example is
the iPod
I have bsod free to anyone anyone can
download it but if you download the
actual iPod version encoded with the
Apple utilities you have to pay for a
licensing fee so you're telling me that
the video that I created for the public
for free I have to pay to watch my own
[ __ ] video who the hell are you to
tell me what I can and can't do with my
hardware when the hell did hardware
start controlling us when its software
start controlling us what are we
controlling our technology that's really
why I'm getting into all of this for
more hacking stuff so you can regain
control of your technology whether it
breaks a law I don't know I don't care
the bottom line is this entire corporate
Gestapo crap of who can tell us what we
can and can't do with the products that
we own have you actually read a license
agreement to Microsoft Windows Vista I
mean really never in my life did I ever
read a license agreement that I couldn't
pretend to agree to and it gave me the
screaming shits so onto point of DVD
region unlocking now this is actually
going to showcase a wonderful example of
corporations [ __ ] themselves in the
ass we're going to use their own tools
against them now I have a copy of
revolution OS if you don't have it this
is a two-disc special edition of
revolution OS it's an actual documentary
about the Linux operating system how it
came to birth open-source movement whole
nine yards this is an unencrypted DVD
it's region 0 I'll put up on the top of
the corner the different regions we have
a region 1 region 2 3 4 5 etc etc raging
zero means there's no region
why do corporations put region control
into
pliers well let's say I lived in the UK
and a movie is out in America first
that means America can make their
profits and then they can go out to the
UK or Australia or vice versa or
whatever so you're telling me that I
currently live in America and if I go
move out to the UK I have to rebuy my
entire DVD collection because it's a
different region that is [ __ ] now I
could rip them all and re-encode the
regions but you know what that's a crime
that's digital i name copyright and
copyright infringement breaking crypts
and all that [ __ ] and [ __ ] you know
you know we're going to go to the DVD
player now we're going to tell the DVD
player to ignore regions now instead of
actually making a DVD player where each
DVD player is specific for each region
they make every mode for the most part
every DVD player compatible with all
regions it's just a firmware setting you
have to get in there and all you need is
the remote control to the DVD player so
you know let's go and start up the DVD
player real quick and right now I've got
a Philips
let me get the corn going right now I've
got a Philips DVP
five nine nine zero okay now you can
actually go to a very wonderful website
it is a video help calm forward slash
DVD hacks I'll put up a little footer up
and ok and I searched for the Philips DV
p5 992 and these are the instructions
that said all right so first we hit
setup I'll go to the Preferences tab
all right then it says press 1 3 8 9 3 1
hey look region code region code 0 come
on you no no no not to 0 you know your
oh yeah region code 0 now I just hit
menu to exit or the house menu on this
remote there we go come on you this
remote control sucks
there we go now this current DVD player
will allow me to play revolution OS now
if you have any home movies that for
some reason wouldn't play you thought
all maybe my media is bad and or maybe
my player can't read CD CD and DVD RS
now it's [ __ ] it's just region
locked it won't let you play region 0
all of your home movies aren't region
are have no region to it you know I've
got one more DVD player
let me just reset up real quick we'll go
through another one real quick ok now
I've also got a portable DVD player
you've seen this on the show few times
this is actually a zenus zenith DBP DVP
six one five okay now the instructions
and it turn on the player with no disc
in the drive way for it's a no disc
press pause on the remote and where the
hell's pause out and use this in a while
now we're gonna pause and enter 3 1 4 3
1 mm 1 5 9 1 5 9 a region management
test mode currently a prone region code
0 well I've already set this one of
course now it's entered 0 long remote
for all regions 1 for region 1 1 4 so if
I wanted region 1 or region 2 region 0
I want region 0 now doing this will
allow me to instances a power the
players press pause on the remote to
accept and then it says to restart the
player
and that's about it this is a perfect
example of actually using OEM tools
against them to get your device to do
what you want it to do no more of this
we're only going to let you do what
we're going to tell you to do unless you
pay us now if you have any home movies
that weren't working that you put onto
DVDs or you're comfy in a couple of
movies and you're made in region-free
and they're not playing in your cheap
$30 DVD player this will actually get
them to life or should as long as can
support the disc but I mean the point
here is we're using the OEMs tools
against them to regain control of our
hardware and this is what firmware
hacking and hardware hacking is all
about expect more stuff like this in the
future