Yamada dvd 5520 hack?

I bought one of these. It's turned into a bit of a saga. I've never
owned a DVD player before, and it seemed like a bargain. The player
arrived and I played my one and only (brand new) region 2 LOTR DVD,
played fine. We rented a couple of DVDs over the weekend and the
first one played fine, the second one kept freezing and I had to turn
the DVD player off at the mains and then on again to even open the
drawer to get the disc out. This happened several times during the
movie. The whole unit then froze and I had to give up. I then tried
my previously perfect LOTR DVD and it wouldn't even load.
Othe things I noticed was that the remote took ages to execute a
command. ie: I would press 'stop' and it wouldn't stop for about 30
seconds. I wasn't sure if this was just a DVD player thing, as I'd
never owned one before...

Anyway, I sent it back and they have dispatched me a replacement
(which hasn't arrived yet) and this morning I got an email telling me
thay are going to send me a CD

"To rectify the situation, we will shortly be sending you a CD-ROM
and
easy to follow, simple, installation instructions, which will enable
you to easily upgrade your DVD player to offer the same level of
multi-region playback capability as would have been the case had the
product been properly configured at the outset. Please note that this
upgrade will not affect your warranty or any other statutory rights."

It had better work first time, or I'll be sending it back and buying a
well known brand...

there is a firmware update on their website that needs to be burnt onto rom and played on machine, ive done it now and it works.

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Yup, it worked for me too. However, I've just received an email from
Amazon, saying they realise there is a problem and they'll be sending a
CDROM to fix it.

Cheers,

Neil

thats it
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After a couple weeks wait, mine's just turned up with the same
problem. Can you confirm that the actual firmware update was:

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Which points at:

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I'll probably give it a bash anyway, but I thought I'd double check.

Cheers,

Neil

I just got one as well from Amazon and found it won't play anything
but region 2, they ran out of stock a few weeks ago and it seems this
latest batch are not Multi region :-( if no-one comes up with a hack
I'm returning it as its not what they are advertising.