Sony Set to Unveil Multi-Format DVD Drive

[SpiralDragon]

check the
link

this could be a great deal

[BarryS]

Sounds like a good idea to me, but as I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to DVD drives, can anyone tell me if these will be region free?

TIA

Barry

[Lucid]

Originally posted by BarryS
Sounds like a good idea to me, but as I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to DVD drives, can anyone tell me if these will be region free?

TIA

Barry

Duh. Of course not.

[SpiralDragon]

actualy i think you set the region when you record.... or atleast you get a few chances befor the firmware locks it self to the last region used after a few times...

[VJ]

I suspect the latter option, 5x region changing seems to be normal (at least, in readers).
Personally, I think this is stupid; if I were to need the ability to frequently read 2 regions, I'd just have to buy 2 readers to solve the problem...


Jörg

[dZeus]

fortunately you don't need a region-free DVD reader to watch DVDs from different regions.

or I should rather formulate that as: It's possible to watch movies from different regions on a region-locked (RPC-2) DVD player.

[SpiralDragon]

and there is always a way to crack the firmware .... to hell with the ppl who are trying to dictate what we can and canot do....