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tangerz

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#189536 3-Jan-2016 16:42
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So I grabbed one of the Panasonic DMR-PWT550GZ Blu-ray player/MyFreeview recorders for cheap in the Boxing Day sales. Got it to replace a bedroom DVD player while adding Blu-ray player and Freeview recording capabilities.

So far so good.

However, went to play a DVD for my 3-year old yesterday and found it is locked to region 4 for DVD, (was a region 2 disc I was trying). Anyone here got one of these to be multizone for DVD? My DVD's are a mix of 4, 2 and 1 so really needs to be multizone. Don't care about Blu-ray as mine are all Region B anyway. Have Googled around and seems the standard remote multizone hacks wont work on these units. Instead it seems it will need to be taken to a Panasonic agent to be 'multizoned' using the service remote. Anyone had this done? Or any idea who might be able to do it?

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Dunnersfella
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  #1460689 3-Jan-2016 17:24
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Where are you located?
Simply find the Panasonic service centre in your town / city and they will multi-zone it for DVD playback... for no extra charge.
Just supply them with a copy of your receipt.

Call your retailer if you don't know where to take it to.



tangerz

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  #1460723 3-Jan-2016 18:11
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Thanks for the reply. I'm in Whangarei. Will have a look for the local service agent.

...A quick Google shows two in town. Cheers!

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