Evil Home Stereo

Having to hook up my laptop to the TV everytime I want to watch a DVD or SVCD annoyed me so much that I went and bought a real player today. You know, one of those standalone boxes taking even more space in your small living room. But hey, those thingies were insanely cheap, about 30 €, around christmas and I already wanted to get one back then (but forgot it).

I got an SEG DVD 430-II for 60 € from the MakroMarkt store just around the corner. Looks like it was a good choice; all disks I tried till now did work (for some I didn’t try it seems like I need a firmware upgrade) and it is said to support even MP3 discs. And finally: Making it region free was a thing of a couple of seconds:

1. Open the disc drawer.
2. Type 2812 on your remote control.
3. Press the Play button until you got code 9.

Let’s see if I still like it before this week’s (and such the seven days free return time) end