Do you think its safe to flash the DVD RW in a TR? I went to a few websites since i thought the region thingy in the DVD drive was a real pain. There is this website called rpc1.com that offers flashing software just for the drive in our TR.

What do you guys think.

as long as you can flash it back if there are problems then..why not?

buddy, that is for UJ-182B, not UJ-182.

I didnt really think as far as to realize that they’d be different drives. No wonder it didnt really work. It said the firmware installed was already the latest. Anyway any idea where i could get the firmware for our drives. None of the region protection killing s/w have actually worked. Have they worked for any one of you ?

as title..

i came across the latest firmware for the uj-812 on the forum a while back.. might be still on here..

Are you sure it was there on the forums, i searched the software section and a general search throughout which couldnt find it.

you must have missed this one..  :wink:

[quote author=“emiisdev”]Hmm..

Found it here:
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/Vaio/Optical/UJ812B_FW.zip

This will upgrade version k100 (factory setting) to version k101 (most recent update on support site)

This one does not have the hardware check initiated through installshield.

Emi ^_^

I already have the version stated here. When i install this file, it tells me that my firmware is already up to date. Apparently the new firmware is suppose to kill the region protection. I cant figure out how thou.

linc:

  that driver doesn’t resolve region free issue. as far as i know today, it is mission impossible.

[quote author=“linc”][quote author=“writetovarun”]Are you sure it was there on the forums, i searched the software section and a general search throughout which couldnt find it.

you must have missed this one..  :wink:

[quote author=“emiisdev”]Hmm..

Found it here:
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/Vaio/Optical/UJ812B_FW.zip

This will upgrade version k100 (factory setting) to version k101 (most recent update on support site)

This one does not have the hardware check initiated through installshield.

Emi ^_^

You can try DVDIdle.com . Works for me!

from http://dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm

“NOTE: DVD-RAM, Matshita XX-8xxx, SW-9xxx series DVD drives, and Torisan DRD-Uxxx series DVD drives are not supported now, and there is no plan to support them. But you can watch and copy CSS-encrypted DVD movies when the drive region and disc region is matched on these DVD drives.”

adidas have you used that software with the UJ-812?

It’s pop-up hell, be warned!  Turn on your blocker.

While not dealing with firmware, it does discuss getting your drive to work with various region codes.

MMC standard requires, that a drive should not reveal a title key on a region mismatched CSS protected disc. (It should return “Illegal request - region code does not match”). Some drives are even less restrictive and even give you the title key on region mismatch.
But AnyDVD can usually reveal the title key with a brute force attack, as long as the drive allows you to read the scrambled sectors.
Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do not! You CANNOT read the scrambled data, if the region code doesn’t match.
No other drive behaves this way, only Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do, as the standard does not require a drive to not reveal the protected data on region mismatch, but Matsushita (Panasonic) drives are more restrictive as they need to be.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/lite/t-101267.html

Hi SoTR,

My apologies, mine is a UJ812, not 812B. But, it still works for me, even tho’ DVDIdle states that it doesn’t support..strange.

[quote author=“adidas”]Hi SoTR,

My apologies, mine is a UJ812, not 812B. But, it still works for me, even tho’ DVDIdle states that it doesn’t support..strange.

Glad to hear that it works for you.

Try this link: http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1780

-Matshita UJ-812B - K101, K103 Only for drives in Sony laptop / K101 Only for drives in NEC laptop / K101 Only for drives in Toshiba laptop / K102, K103 Only for drives in Victor laptop / K104 Only for drives in IBM laptop
Slim tray drive
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