Portable DVD Player disc restrictions...

Plausible, but I doubt they went to that much trouble. The DVD provided with it plays just fine in any normal DVD player. So that disc isn't protected. Also, it appears to be a DVD-R that it is written, nice purple color and obviously only written about half full. Going to try using Nero to burn one on my recorded TV shows as a home made compilation style DVD and see if that works.

Well, the burning of a Futurama episode did not pan out. I don't think it's CSS encryption status dependent either, since the DVD's I ripped before had the CSS stripped off. Any other thoughts out there that might make this useable?

Can a dvd player be locked for a specific disc volume name?

Now it seems so obvious.. 

Why didn't I think of that.... Just burnt a TV program using a volume name that matches the provided disc and viola! it works. Now if I could just find a remote that works with it (there is an IR sensor up front) Time to get out the universal and play for a while :) Thanks VideoDude

Now that you've determined it's set for only one volume name, perhaps you can discover and explore the player's "setup" program and eliminate that restriction...

That sounds like a good project to work on. Any suggestions? Perhaps just randomly holding down buttons while turning on? Key press combos? I'll fiddle with it a bit tonight and see what happens. Sure would be nice to not have to burn a new copy of anything I wish to watch with a special name. (not that it will be used very frequently, but still...)