I use one of these little DVD players to watch while doing my cardio, as well as keeping the kids entertained during longer trips in the car. Its a great little unit that plays DVDs, Divx files, pictures and onwards. Also has twin headphone outputs, AV OUT and IN (important for PS2 playing on trips - lol) and a USB input for pictures.
Well, it appeared to work nicely, until today when going on a trip, the stupid thing failed to play Transformers, due to 'wrong zone'. Strange how the player works with a bunch of other Region 4 DVDs, especially as all of my DVD's are from this Zone.
So I hunted down the instructions for unlocking the zones that came with the player. These were not exactly clear, so with a bit of playing around I have a clearer option.
Instructions to make your PET830 play DVDs from other regions.
1) Switch the unit on with no disc inserted.
2) Press the play button (just press and release, do not hold the button down)
3) On the remote, press 1 4 0 0
The FSM MENU should appear
4) Press the right arrow to move onto the REGION menu
5) Press the down arrow to highlight the DVD REGION
6) Press left or right arrow until the number reads '0'
7) Press OK, and then SETUP to get rid of the menu
It's now playing Transformers
3 comments:
I tried this unlock but get no FSM. Just bought this thing in Belgium but can't play our DVDs cuz we are from OZ. Any ideas.
I have no idea. I brought mine in NZ at Harvey Normans, and they supplied this unlock in the package, but it wasn't worded clearly. On the startup, the screen should go bluish, then I just pressed the play button on the unit once, then used the remote to enter 1 4 0 0, then the menu came up. I will play around with it again later and see what happens.
I know I am a little late with a possible solution (one year later), but just in case...
Just bought mine in the Netherlands (so should have the same set-up as the Belgium one I think). The trick to get the FSM menu worked just fine. First attempt it didn't, but the second time I used the PLAY button on the Player instead of the one on the remote.
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