Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 02/17/06 02:24

On 2/16/2006, Bill Vermillion managed to type:
> In article <wL6Jf.39057$Eq.9558@trnddc02>, JAQK <johnny@tamtam.com> wrote:
>> Any comments from those with region-free players?
>>
>> Pardon my ignorance, but are region-free DVD players even available in
>> stores in North America?
>
> My first region free player - which I got before most people knew
> it could be region free - and Apex 600A - came up with a nasty
> warning about modified hardware implying I was doing something
> illegal - when I put in Spiderman - one of the early RCE disks -
> and would go no furhte.
>
> When I moved to a Philips and used the keyboard codes to make it
> a Region 0 machine all was fine.
>
> The only strangness - and I've not confirmed be resetting to region
> 1 - on my current machine - is I get the typical interpol warnings
> in about 6 languages - one after the other.
>
> Bill

Yikes! And I'll bet you can't skip out of them, of course.

I haven't seen this on my region-free players, but I hardly ever play
an out-of-region DVD, after all.

Gino

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