Make Samsung BD-C5500 region free for DVD

[BobJones]

I picked up a Samsung BD-C5500 blu-ray player and was surprised to find that it would not play my Zone 1 DVD's.

Google came up with nothing, but I found some instructions to make the BD-P1600 region free, so I thought I'd try them. Worked like a charm for DVD's, but not sure if the same is true for BD's. All the BD's I've got are region B or discs that are already region free.

Here is how you do it.

Region code hack posted by scottieuk, July 05 2009:
Hi
Credit for this hack goes to RABSP, although I've modified
it slightly.
It's basically the same method used for the Samsung BD-1500.

I used it on my brand new Samsung BD-1600 today and it
worked on the first try using the code below.
My unit is a Region 2 (UK) machine.

1) Press the POWER button on the remote to turn on the
machine (no disc in the tray).

2) Wait till the player has booted up and the Samsung logo
screen is displayed.

3) Press the OPEN/CLOSE button on the remote twice, to open
then close the disc tray.

4) As soon as you see "No-Disc" displayed in the top left
corner, press the REPEAT button followed by the 5 digit code
for your current region as listed below.

(Mine was 57538 for region 2)

Don't press the REPEAT button for too long, just smoothly
press REPEAT 5 7 5 3 8.

If it doesn't work straight away, keep trying, mine worked
on the first go.

5) If you're successful, your current region code will be
displayed in the top left corner of the screen.

6) Press '9' to make your player region free.

7) Turn the player off, then on again and test with a
different region disc, or if you don't have one to test
with, just repeat the hack and instead of your old region
code appearing in the top left corner of your screen, you
should see '9' if you've been successful.

The hack can be repeated to turn your machine back to it's
original settings or to a particular region if the disc is
sensative to region free machines.

Region Codes

R1 - 29334
R2 - 57538
R3 - 56732
R4 - 76884
R5 - 53814
R6 - 24462

Worked for me YMMV.

[GuillermoR]

I tried it and it worked.
However, I messed when entering the desired region code and pressed "7" instead of "9".
How can I fix it?
Thanks

[PeterCH]

All the BD's I've got are region B or discs that are already region free.

Your BDs are Region Locked to Region B.

It is possible to buy Region Free Panasonic (and other) Bluray players from the web which are Region free for DVD (not a big achievement) and Region free for Bluray. Like it or not, USA and Japan have a wider selection of stuff for Bluray and DVD.

[Hollie]

Very cool! Thanks for the walk through. I was able to get it to work for DVD's, but not for blue rays. It would really be nice to go region free for blue ray, so if anyone knows how I might go about accomplishing this, I would love to hear about it. By any chance is anyone here a dish tv los angeles customer? I am thinking about subscribing, though I am a little hesitant to sign a contract. Do you think I would be happy with my service? Thanks.

[AndreiAr]

There don't seem to be many that are region free for bluray.