Making a region free but not decrypted Blu-Ray copy

[pvh1987]

I have a US BD+ title that I would like to play on my Blu-Ray player. But, I live in Europe so my Blu-Ray player is locked to region B.

I know that with aacskeys and DumpHD I can make backups of my older non BD+ Blu-Ray discs. But what if I have a Blu-ray disc that I can't decrypt (like newer BD's or BD+)? Can remove the region lock and let my Blu-Ray player take care of the decryption?

And if so - how do I do that?

Thanks in advance :-)

[setarip_old]

@pvh1987

Hi!

I believe that the 21 day free fully functional version of "AnyDVD-HD" should do what you want to accomplish...

[Ghitulescu]

I have a US BD+ title that I would like to play on my Blu-Ray player. But, I live in Europe so my Blu-Ray player is locked to region B.

I know that with aacskeys and DumpHD I can make backups of my older non BD+ Blu-Ray discs. But what if I have a Blu-ray disc that I can't decrypt (like newer BD's or BD+)? Can remove the region lock and let my Blu-Ray player take care of the decryption?

And if so - how do I do that?

Since you can't modify the original disc, and therefore you have to rip it first on the HDD, why on hell do you want to keep the protection? To fool cinavia? Just rip it, remove all the protections and live happy...

[setarip_old]

@Ghitulescu

why on hell do you want to keep the protection? To fool cinavia? Just rip it, remove all the protections and live happy...
Are you saying that THERE IS a way to "fool" Cinavia (on hardware/standalone Blu-ray players)? If so, please be good enough to post your methodology here.

[Ghitulescu]

@Ghitulescu


Are you saying that THERE IS a way to "fool" Cinavia (on hardware/standalone Blu-ray players)? If so, please be good enough to post your methodology here.

Cinavia is triggered only on copies, and copies are always non-encrypted because they can't be encrypted.

[pvh1987]

Ok, so if I understand you correctly, I will need to make a fully decrypted copy (which is also region free) and burn than onto a BD-R in order to play it with my standalone Blu-ray player?

I just thought that the region coding was independent of the regular AACS encryption and could more easily be removed.

What about making a bit-for-bit copy of an encrypted Blu-ray disc? Will the burned, bit-perfect, non-decrypted, copy look like the original to the Blu-ray player? I guess it will not work since it would be to easy to make playable copies... but I have not tried so I don't know :-)

[ro-ee]

Isn't it so that the region code for Blu-rays is not anymore stored in bits (like on a DVD), but is to be verified by the player by executing code from the disc?

Currently, when updating my DVD/BD-database, I sometimes have a hard time determining if a BD I have is playable on all regions or only B or only A... if it's not written on the disc itself, it’s hard to say... Just wondering...

[Ghitulescu]

RC1 was indeed only a byte, but RC2 did a software check, too, albeit rudimentary. That's for DVD.
BD however IIRC relies entirely on software to check the zone.

Nevertheless, if one changes the zone, wouldn't it be logic to remove all other annoying stuff? It won't cost anything extra :) And BDplayers should refuse to play AFAIK encrypted BDRs, because the key resides outside the writing part of a BDR (they did this with DVDRs too).