Video Asylum

Posted by cfraser (A) on June 20, 2013 at 13:15:26

In Reply to: RE: Are Oppo players region free? posted by mbnx01 on June 18, 2013 at 21:41:31

If you only want to play DVDs from all regions on an OPPO BD player, there are software "hacks". The hack is a little program you put on a CD (only works from a burned CD AFAIK, not a DVD) and it lives "forever". I put it on my BDP-83 years ago and my BDP-93 not so long ago, and not only does it work fine, but it lives through all firmware updates etc., never had to do it again.

This works because the basic chipset in the OPPOs, like in their previous DVD players, is region-free for DVDs to start with. For region-free BD playback, yes you'll need the hardware "hack".