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Originally Posted by danny24
From my experience some discs work and some don't. Yes the disc has done it's job with the "invalid region" screen but if the top menu trick doesn't work it means the disc is region locked and you need an actual Region B player to get it to play. So while discs are region coded and the "invalid region" screen does it's job some discs aren't truly region locked meaning they can be accessed. It does not mean they are region free, they are still Region B. It's really kind of complicated. I have an Oppo 203 with the region code chip and if I change it to B the discs that won't play in the Panny with top menu trick work with the Oppo when changed to Region B.
Glad the Region A Criterion's are working though.
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If the top menu trick doesn't work then it's because it's been authored in a way that doesn't allow it, IMO it's not the region coding/locking/whatever that's doing it but some sort of loophole in the UOP (user operation prohibition) system. If Criterion's authoring house wanted to put a stop to it completely then they'd do what most other authoring houses do: don't allow any key presses or menu buttons to be used on the 'invalid menu' screen apart from the eject button, everything else is locked out.