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Posted by Edward on 10/10/06 04:37
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:47:51 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> On 10/09/2006, Edward posted this:
>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:32:59 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
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>>> On 10/07/2006, Edward posted this:
>>>> I had realitives come over France (I'm in the US) and something
>>>> unexpected happened: They have three home movie DVD-RWs they wanted to
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> [...]
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>>> First you need to know that Regions and NTSC vs PAL are two unrelated
>>> things.
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> [...]
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>> Yes, thanks; I do understand PAL and NTSC. The reason I was looking for a
>> region free DVD player is because they seem to be advertised as capable of
>> playing PAL DVDs in NTSC countries.
>> As far as I know there are no single region NTSC&PAL players out there.
>> Even if they did exist I don't want one; since I'll be spending money on
>> the thing, I might as well go for the gold and get a fully capable region
>> free dual standard unit.
>> Hopefully that makes sense that was typed very quickly.
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> Not the first time I told someone something they already knew :-)
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> However, I couldn't tell that you did know, so it was worth the gamble
> - besides there is always a possibility that someone else might benefit
> from my wisdom, such as it is.
Logical - I gotcha.
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> Often, some of the cheaper players found at Target or Walmart can play
> both formats and are - or can be easily hacked to be - region free.
Wal-mart. Don't get me started on them.
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> I forget which ones, but you can often track it down on
> www.videohelp.com. Of course, there's a good chance some other news
> freak will post a good link or name soon in this thread.
I'm going to get something good - tather than go the el cheapo route. I
have bought cheap stuff in the past and regretted it. Like I said, go for
the gold instead of being half assed. I'll probably get on ebay and get
the Phillips model mentioned in this thread.
I justy weant to figure out how hard it is to "hack" this thing into
region freeness.
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