It is old story that DVD has region codes and only when the DVD disk has the same region code as the DVD player, the movie would be played and otherwise the player wouldn’t play it. Now understand that this is one of the movement against piracy. The DVD region code on DVD movies are 1 byte valued.
Coming to the problem. I recently changed my DVD player to support more formats and as well USB mode of video playing. During my last visit, I had bought complete 3 seasons of “I love Lucy” (Its just wonderful, cuts me loose 
) but couldn’t play because of region codes, The DVD was from USA (meaning Region Code 1) and my DVD player was bought in India (meaning region code 5). So I started looking out to make my DVD player “Region-Free”. C’mon, I paid good earned dollars to buy the DVD’s which I can’t play???
The region codes are;
- United States and Canada
- Europe and Japan
- Southeast Asia
- Latin America and Australia
- Russia, rest of Asia and Africa
- China
So finally Google comes to help, read on unlocking and setting the DVD player to region free (code 0). Got some posting on unlocking a Philips DVP 5xxx series, used the same method on my Philips DVP-3266. Took 2 minutes to unlock it and watch the video I wanted to watch
Following are the steps, if it help anybody;
Press Setup
Select the Preference Tab
Press 1,3,8,9,3,1
Press up/down key to select "0"
And hit menu to exit.You can double check it by
Press SETUP
Navigate to [General Options] menu
Press 1 3 7 9
Oh yeah and another best part was, none of the shop guys admitted that the USB can be used for movies (I had an e-zone guy promise me that it would only play audio).
What to say man, it just works and there are some rumor going around that the USB won’t read hard disks, it is complete B.S. As long as the hard disk is formatted with FAT16/FAT32, it would play, period.
In my DVP 3266
Press Setup (Fine)
Select the Preference Tab (Fine)
Press 1,3,8,9,3,1 (Nothing Happens)
Press up/down key to select “0″ (From where to select “0″? There is no “0″ only audio, subtitle, disc meny, parental, PBC, MP3, Password are there.
And hit menu to exit. (Nothing happened)
Could you be bit more elaborate please-it will help many like me.
Try it a couple of times and take time between the steps. It should work, since it worked for me.
Cheers,
Rajesh
Hi,
I tried the above steps on my Philips DVP 3266 but when I press the setup kep I get only the following tabs:
1) General Setup Page
2) Audio Setup Page
3) Video Setup Page
4) Exit Setup Menu
Even if i keep pressing after that it rolls back to the 1st Tab… Any idea?
Thanks & Regards,
Patralekh
Hi,
I am done, the mistake I was making was I had put the DVD inside the player and I was trying the above things. To get the pref page we need to pull out the DVD media, ie their should be NO DVD inside the player and the tray should be in close position.
Thanks a lot for your help
Thanks & Regards,
Patralekh