Are my collection of dvds any good in canada or should i sell them before moving cheers hess

You have two choices,

1. bring a multi-region dvd player with you (easier to buy in UK than Canada)
2. Bring your DVD's buy a reasonable DVD player and hack into it (very easy to do) and convert it to multi-region and it will happily play anything you put on it. We did this because we didnt think of this before we left. It also means that friends and family can send you British DVD's as christmas presents too!

Multi region players are cheap and easy to find in Canada. Bring them with you. The cheapest $50 walmart player is said to be good for this....I forget brands etc, but its been covered here many times before.

Yes bring them with you. We bought a DVD player from Walmart here in Canada. I used this website to unlock it and it plays all our discs from back home now.

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/

Our DVD player was about $40 from Walmart - plays UK and Mr L2S's illegal burnt downloads. We still haven't tested Canadian though!!!

futureshop sell a max6100 dvd player f0r $30. works perfectly for UK and Canadian DVD's and even allows it be played on NTSC only TV's as it converts the signal too.

A word of warning if your intend to bring over your UK dvd player!

We brought ours over but had failed to read the instructions where it told us to change the settings from PAL to NTSC whilst still in the UK on PAL system. We thought we would simply change it here. However, when we hooked it up to the TV and switched it on, our picture was racing at 100mph. Result was that we could not follow the onscreen selections to change it to NTSC.

We ultimately bought 2 new players here in NS - not expensive for HD upconverting players.

TIP - go to your local Walmart or Superstore etc and write down the brand and model number of players available. Then go online here to see if there is a hack code for it. Brand new models may not have a code yet. I hacked both our players in minutes.

Also, check out the remote control for the player you like - some of them have tiniest buttons and are next to useless without a large magnifying glass

DVDs are not as cheap to buy here as back in the UK. I used to shop online at Play, Choices Direct (used www.kelkoo.co.uk to do price comparisons to get some great bargains. Play USA does not deliver to Canada! However, you can shop at HMV UK and they will either post free to an address in the UK which is great for prezzies, or best of all they also post to Canada! They also have some great prices.

I'm not so sure of that. I used to buy many of my DVDs used from ebay for practically nothing, but if I bought new from online stores I was typically paying 4-6 pounds for an older movie... which appear to go for about $8-10 in stores here.

Maybe new movies are more expensive, but I haven't bought one in a long time because I know they'll be half the price after six months.

Oh, the funny part is that I used to buy DVDs from Canada and have them mailed to the UK, until sites like play started pushing prices down much lower than the high-street. Probably about a third of my disks have now crossed the Atlantic twice!

www.sendit.com are as cheap as play.com and only charge £1 or so delivery to Canada. and they even mark the package as a gift! (bit naughty as its clearly a product as shown by their business lables.) but it saves on taxes.

and about the screen racing if you forget to change it before hand. thats the same with the max 6100. make sure you change it to always NTSC output rather than auto, as the first time you put a UK DVD in it will put out in PAL if you dont then you have the screen racing problem.

Thanks for that website link. Low cost international postage charges too

It's great to be able to easily buy British Comedy

I bought a Max DVD player from Future Shop for about $40. On most DVD boxes on sale it states the region, on the Max box it's doesn't mention the region at all, so I took a chance and it plays both.
By the way, asking a sales person is probably no good as I was told by 2 people working there that they don't sell multi region DVD players. They dooo...

I guess that was my problem. I was stupid enough to think that sales people in the electronics stores would know what multi-region was...... What was I thinking, of course they are no better than Comet or Dixon's spotty youths.

. Oh well we hacked into our toshiba and now it plays any region without any fuss

Bring the DVDS! You can get gazilions of region cracked (or easily crackable) players here by looking the model number up on the internet with region crack in the scearch string of google. The TV sucks big time here because of the American influence & the ads every 10 seconds. We have spent years buying UK TV programs on e-bay which we watch on our $29 DVD player from Sprawl-Mart!

Hi, I thought I'd use my first post asking a similar question. We are trying to get hold of a HD DVD recorder that will also play our UK DVD's. We have tried the region hacker websites for the Toshibas, Samsungs & Sonys on the shelves of Costco, Future Shop & Best Buy, but there doesn't seem to be any hacks for the HD DVD recorders - any suggestions from anyone with a similar experience would be greatly appreciated!

Rose

You might as well just have a separate player for DVDs - as people have said they only cost $50 or so. Your TV should have plenty of inputs for two machines, if not you can easily get some sort of switch or splitter to switch between the two.