If multi- region and/or region free dvd players do exist, where would I find one? For how much.
I've recently become addicted to anime thanks to ludosti, and am interested in import dvd's from Japan.
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
Ebay. And they're cheap.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
And they don't work.
Use a computer.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
To elaborate, we buy DVDs from Australia and England. We went out searching for a multi-region or region free DVD player and finally found one. Great. Except it's NTSC, and the foreign DVDs are PAL (or vice versa, I forget). So the foreign DVDs don't work on that player anyway. To make matters worse, it doesn't even play region one DVDs all the time, because many more recent DVDs have coding on them to detect rechipped DVD players, and refuse to play on them. Biggest waste of $150 or so I ever spent. My multi-region DVD just sits and collects dust.
What we finally ended up doing was playing the DVDs on my laptop, and wiring it up to the TV set. It looks great, and it runs great. Computers have no PAL/NTSC issues, and can be any region you choose. You do have a limited number of region switches allowed before it locks in. If you only plan to use your computer for one region, no problem. If not, do what I did and download DVD Region-Free.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
They exist, and they work. At least, here in Brazil. I have 2 DVD players (multi region) and many anime DVDs from Japan.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
My computer came with a region-free DVD-RW; it says 5 changes allowed, but won't let you change it, even with admin powers, but when I check on burning DVDs it says region-free under the select region step.
It works too, as I have been buring DVD copies for 2 days now , with no prblems other that learning how to do things within this program.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Mine is all-region, and it works just fine. I got it from www.yesasia.com.
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