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It's ture but if you update the FW kiss regin free good bye.
No firmware update available adds region coding at this point in time to any HD DVD device currently on the market, with no immediate plans for one to be introduced in the near future.

They've still not even implemented a region coding spec to HD DVD. Yes it is being discussed, but it simply does not exist yet, and Toshiba and Microsoft have openly gone on the record numerous times stating that existing players on the market will never have a region coding firmware update forced upon them.