How does it work?

We fit a specially designed custom chip to the DVD player which controls the region coding. 

Our chip is no ordinary piece of silicon, it controls the very identity of the DVD player it is fitted to.  Developed by some of the best PIC and hardware programmers in the business, it not only changes the region coding on a DVD player perfectly but is also designed to be future-proof against detection.

Our chips have the following special features :

Full DVD Branching and Interrogation Gateway

All new DVD discs are protected with the DVD 'branching' system where the DVD movie discs interrogates the DVD player for it's identity.  Our chip sets a virtual gateway from which to send back the perfect region coding information to enable the disc to be played.

Anti-disk detection system

New DVD discs are arriving with better and smarter protection, our chip has an auto-shut down mechanism designed to reduce power consumption from the player to zero during use and perfect 'cloaking' against DVD disc detection.

Any DVD movie discs that searches the player for our Code-Free chip will find absolutely nothing.

Anti 'Identity bluff' System

The cutting edge of DVD disc protection comes in the form of the 'Identity Bluff' system.  

As an example, a Region 1 disc itself can be encoded as REGION 2, then interrogates the player for REGION 1 region information before being able to be played.

DVD players that read the region information from the disc (or auto-detect players) result in a 'wrong region' message being displayed.  Not so with our chip, our Region information is controlled by the user therefore cannot be fooled by mis-information from the DVD disc.


NEW Flash Upgrade Facility  

Now we can fully re-flash our software using DVDR discs.  This enables you to replace firmware in selected players via a disc should the DVD players operating system/software has to be upgraded.  Should we develop further features such as Macrovision disabling or FBI warning skip for your DVD player, we can issue you with a disc to upgrade your player with these new facilities.


Why does DVD Region Coding exist in the first place?

Due to the 'staggered' movie release system, it was important that DVD movies were controlled in some way.

When a feature film is made, only a certain amount of film reels are made for cinemas.   To make film reels for every country worldwide at the same time would be expensive, so each continent receives film reels in a 'staggered' order.

Typically, the film reels will be shown in America and Canada first, then shipped to Europe, then to Australia/Asia.  As a result, DVD movies can sometimes be released in US at the same time/before movies are shown in cinemas in Europe/Asia.  This makes it desirable to have a Code-Free DVD player.


Is it legal?

Yes, Code-Free DVD players are perfectly legal. You will however, be unlikely to find Code-Free DVD players at retail outlets as it is somewhat controversial.



How is my warranty affected with a Code-Free DVD player?

We give a full warranty on all DVD players.  All returns are made to ourselves, not manufacturer