Hi there.

I use my PS2 as a DVD player, and I'm really tired of watching movies where the fast-forward and reverse controls have been disabled.

I understand that there are a few DVD players around these days that have a UOP disable ("User Operation Permission") setting. These few DVD players will allow fast-forward past the FBI warnings and commercials that are infesting all DVDs these days.

I've looked into several different mod chips for the PS2 which promise to delete the region protection on DVD disks, but I don't see any of them that disable the UOP.

I've done a search of this forum, and one person ("Normal") mentioned back on May 1st that he hoped the SMS program may eventually have UOP disable in the future. But that was it.

Does anyone know if there's anything planned in the hardware or software hack pipeline that will disable UOP?

Thanks!