Having said that, there is always the possibility that this player is a clone of another player. There are a large number of Chinese players that are all clones of each other (eg, Raite, Yamakawa, Topai, etc) and they all respond to the same remote control codes. Can you tell if this player is really from Panama, is there any info printed on it that might help?

Do you have the ability to take some pictures of it?

If you get yourself a JP1 remote and cable you could experiement with some existing DVD codes to see if there's a match.

Rob
http://www.hifi-remote.com