BD-C8200 Blue-ray player (amended)

[habee]

For changing the region code you can try the hack described here:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/samsu ... 5500/10794

This hack works for a lot of Samsung-Players ( unfortunately not for my BD-C500-XAA, A/1)

Another way could be to set the Buyers-Region described in the Service-Manual of the HT-C5200:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39227921/Sams ... ter-System

Good luck

[habee]

The second image shows the pinheader for the serial console. You could attach a serial TTL-Coupler to it to see the output. Would be interesting...

I would suppose the Software of these devices have more in common with the Samsung TV-Sets than with the Samsung Blueray-Series.

[habee]

serial TTL-Coupler? Could you enlighten me about the pin connections?

Read this, it should be self explanatory. I did this with my BD-C5500.
Connect the cables to UARTRX and UARTTX.

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.ph ... inkstation

Being a Blue-ray player with a DVB-C HD recorder why would the software be similar to the TV's software?

Why not? The firmware of the BD-C8200 looks more like the actual Firmware from Samsung-TV-Sets than the Firmware of the Bluray-only-devices (Which are mainly
Broadcom based).

Regarding access to service menu, you will probably gain the information if you add serial console.

habee