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Old 05-30-2008, 04:29 AM   #13 (permalink)
stevenyu
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Originally Posted by JadedRaverLA View Post
There really is no such thing as RPC-1 firmware for BD-ROM drives (well, there is, but it is just for DVD playback). BD-ROM drives don't handle the region-coding for Blu-ray titles... the player software does. In fact, if you get two different software players, you can easily set one for BD Region A and the other for BD Region B and be good to go.

As for firmware updating your drive, the Matsushita/Panasonic laptop drives are all locked to only accept firmware from the PC manufacturer... as opposed to a nice generic firmware from Matsushita/Panasonic. It's a real pain... and one reason I don't think anyone has done much work on altering the firmware.
I haven't had a chance to test different region BD disc, as I only have one BD disc at the moment, all I want to do is watch oversea DVD in my room when other family member are watching on the media centre :-(
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