Following taken fron Nerd-out Forum
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Ok people 100% confirmation that VHS Friendly and Region free have been established in the latest attempt of the firmware upgrade. However this patch will not resume VCD playback it will enable you to play all your non-region 2 dvd's on your apex ad1100wb player again.

Files will be available in the next 10 minutes or so.

thanks to everyone involved in the production and testing of the firmware so far, we all appreciate everyones patience and efforts and hope that you will all remain members of the nerd-out community for years to come.

Kind regards,
MarkH

ps:
NERO GUIDE HERE for how-to burn the patch rom to CDR
http://apex.phormation.com/help/brn_guide/

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i will post the download link as soon as i have it

Here it is
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Ok sorry for the delay I have been writing up disclaimers and readme information and a how-to guide for nero all of which are available from the main site here:

http://www.aozh88.dsl.pipex.com/

direct download to the new firmware patch is here:

http://apex.phormation.com/U1100WB/regionfree-vhsfriendly.zip

or

http://www.aozh88.dsl.pipex.com/U1100WB/regionfree-vhsfriendly.zip

PLEASE ENSURE TO READ ALL THE INFORMATION CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH ANY UPGRADES, THIS FILE IS CHECKED AND ATHENTICATED WITH AN MD5 SUM CHECK SIGNATURE, IF IT DOESNT VALIDATE THIS SIGNATURE IT ISNT FROM MY SITE OR IT ISNT THE REAL PATCH FIRMWARE..... DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATION FIRMWARE

Download page here for the two firmwares, including regionfree / vhs friendly (all-in-one) and also the ORIGINAL stock firmware:

http://www.aozh88.dsl.pipex.com/U1100WB/
or
http://apex.phormation.com/U1100WB/

if anyone would like to help me by mirroring these files please email me first, do not just put the files onto websites without permission to do so first. Also anyone found selling this patch on ebay will be delt with severerly so you have been WARNED

Ok thats that out the way and I am off to relax a little now before my hands get sore. Enjoy this patch and again thankyou to everyone involved in the development and testing of this new region free / vhs patch firmware...


regards and all the best,
MarkH
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