Dan-the-Man

Hi all. I have finally successfully got a DVD to play on my imported E500. The command (and Car) is from Japan. I have have not been able to play DVD's up until now as they either say "wrong region" or "check your disk"

I now know that the regions are locked to 2 (Japan) and 4 Australian/NZ and Asia. I am in NZ. The disk that worked was region 4 NTSC. If I could remove the region code locking then any NTSC disk would work which is around 1/3 of my collection.

I am going to try burning some DVD's with no region code in NTSC and experiment etc. Not ideal but still.

What I need to do is get into the engineer mode on this unit. I have tried all the threads I can find on this board and others with key combinations but with no success to date.

If anyone has successfully got into the engineer mode on a Japan 02/03 command then please PM me.

P.S The DVD that worked was Batman and Robin the first Black and white series from TV. Hillarious

SUNILP

you can change region coding with the dealer DAS computer.

Dan-the-Man

The dealers here are a bit useless. We tried for around 1/2 an hour to find what we could change using the dealer DAS and nothing was obvious from the menus/places he went into.

I might go back and have another try. Do you know where they need to navigate to?