A ‘hacked’ version of the Panasonic DMP-BD60, which allows users to play DVD’s from Regions 0 to 7 and Blu ray discs from regions A, B and C, is being offered by MovieTyme, a leading internet based disc importer and is aimed at users who find the region coding to be a issue.
The Panasonic DMP-BP60 is the same price to import as any other Blu ray player, comes with a one year guarantee and, according to the promise from MovieTyme, can have its firmware upgraded without the multiregion settings being affected.
The Blu ray format does not seem to have the same problems with regional coding as the DVD format, which suffered quite heavily from regional incompatibilities, although there are still a few issues and because region codes on Blu rays are different from the DVD codes it often makes things more confusing.
A few options to handle this regional coding issue are available and the best is currently to buy the UK model of this hacked device and the other is to import the US model of the Blu ray player. This new version of the Panasonic DMP-BD60 is available from Japan and according to many industry expert is believed to be the first time a Japanese Blu ray player has had these kinds of modifications made to them, on a branded model at least.
The Panasonic DMP-BD60 can be viewed as either an update to the BD35 or a more basic version of the BD80 and is a slim and sleek Blu ray player that is seen by many as the ideal unit to receive this upgrade.
The player has a USB port and an SD/SDHC slot and because it comes with no internal memory it will be this SD/SDHC slot that allows users to store both web content and downloaded updates. Also included with this Blu ray player are the Panasonic Viera Cast system, BD live and BonusView.
Source - Home Cinema Choice