Panasonic 2018 flagship UB9000 w/HCX video processor & dynamic conversion adjustment

[danny24]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

How is region locking different from region coding? If the 'invalid region' screen still comes up first then the coding has done its job, no? And I know of no other brand of player (Panny derivatives excluded) that can do this with Criterion discs, it's a bug that no-one ever bothered to correct because Panasonic players have never had that big of a footprint in the US.

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.