Dansai region-free hacks

TO disable region settings and macrovision are explaind below,

This works on 1010 as 852 discontinued

Turn on the player

Make sure you have NO disc inserted!

Press "setup" on the remote control

Press "stop" on the front panel

Press "prev" on the front panel

Press "next" on the front panel

This will have opened the secret install menu

You can also open this menu using just the remote control buttons but be carefull to do everything exactly as it states

Region code Hack

Look for the "region I.D" setting

Press "play" to open the options

Choose "bypass" to remove the need for a region code

The Macrovision Hack

While in the secret setup menu move down to macrovision and choose "off" instead of "auto"

This turns off the macrovision signal and enables you to make back-up copys onto VHS video tapes

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Press Setup on the Remote

Press Stop, Fwd, Prev and Next

Now select the Region id and select bypass for Region free. Macrovision is set to off on this model

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Using the remote press Setup, Stop, Previous and Next

You should now be in a secret menu where you can change the Region from 1 to 6, or Bypass for Region free

You can also disable Macrovision from this menu

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Power on player with No DVD in the drive

Press Set-up on the remote

Press Stop, Prev and Next on the players fascia

A service menu will then be displayed which will allow you to change the region and disable Macrovision

Press Setup

On front panel of unit press Stop, Previous and Next

You should now be in a secret menu where you can choose region 1-6, or bypass for region free. You can also disable Macrovision from this menu.

Power On and Open tray

Press Setup

Press Right x 3 times

Press Up once

Press 4 9 5 4 0

Region menu appears

Change to 0 for all regions

Thanks to Rob for this information

Using remote turn On and Open draw

Press Setup and select Custom Setup using remote cursors

Press 3 3 3 3

Region code is indicated

Using remote highlight 0 and press Enter

Press Setup

Thanks to Steve for this information