Pinkeltje used our newssubmit again to direct us to a website that is able to make the KiSS DVD/DivX player (KiSS DVD DP-450) region free. It seems this device has been build around a Toshiba DVD player, and two different models are used, one is the Toshiba SD-M1612 and the other is the latest model of the company, the Toshiba SD-M1712. Reasons to remove the region protection are e.g if you want to play DVD discs that you have purchased in another region.
There is also one very important thing. If you do know yet the Toshiba drives are RPC-2, wich means that they have internal region protection. Inside is a counter that at first is set to 5. When you put a region protected movie inside the counter decresses to 4 and stays at 4 until you put a diffrent region movie inside the drive again. When it hits 0 the drive gets permanently locked. But if you know what our main page is all about you know that we tend to disable this region protection. What does this mean for KiSS players you ask? Simple. If the software identifies that the drive is RPC-2 it will not allow playing other region movies then the one that is preset. So the main goal would be to make the drive become RPC-1. The only way to do it is by patching the firmware for this Toshiba drives to become region free. |
The website describes in detail how to remove the protection and offers modified firmware files for download. It is needed to connect the drive to the PC and the whole action is likely to void your warranty. If you still want to go ahead with it, you can read the page that describes it all here.
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