Stupid me.

Today I felt the urge to buy a Home Theater System. Impulse buy, of course, but it was on sale.

I bought a Sony DVD Home Theater model DAV-DZ555K

Silly me, i forgot to think if it was region free or not. I get home set it up, and its NOT. lol Only region 3.

Can anyone help me unlock this machine. I know that people have talked about doing that, but I don't have much experience in this area.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

JB

It seems that Sony 'aint the easiest to find hacks for (the ones I found are dead links)

Try this chap http://dvdunlocks4u.co.uk/page1.html not free but not excessive either

Also have a look here:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

If it does not have the exact model, look for a similar model, and try that.

I believe that you will still be able to view DVDs that are not region-encoded. Those types of DVDs are plentiful in LOS. Goto Panthip or other outlet.

I live in the US with a Region-1 DVD player. Panthip DVDs work just fine.

If you already have a collection of DVDs that are region-encoded from your home country, you can strip away the encoding using DVDShrink (or other similar PC application) and then reburning the image to a DVD-R.

Thanks for all the help. I took the time to actually try some region 1 dvd's in my machine, and they actually work. Must be the way they are sold in THailand.

Thanks for all the help, everyone who replied!

You can also look at this sony forum, http://www.agoraquest.com/searchbb.php

When I had a very specific problem with my sony HT, this was the only place i could find any information about it. And the information was dead on.