pege63,
The code identifies the country where the machine was designed to run in. Firmwares for one region may or may not work on machines intended for a different region.
You may want to contact the Samsung customer service center for further assistance.
--HDTech
I have a samsung BD-3600 XEE but from the samsung FW download site i get XEF files, wathj is the differnce between XEE vs XEF?

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