albion_exile

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but if you have UK DVDs/Blu-Rays then Wal-mart is selling a Seiko BD660 Blu-Ray player for $88 which can be hacked to play UK DVDs and Blu-Rays.

Hack details from Videohelp.

RedFlag discussion on the player.

Just putting one through its paces. So far so good, but a little on the warm side.

CanadaJimmy

Thanks for the heads up. Pretty cool it can play files off of a USB stick as well including MKV, I have to say that did get my attention being an anime fan as most fansubs are in that format! May have to consider this one...

schumachergal

Stick to the cheaper makes as they are easier to crack. Here check this out first

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

The cracks are free and on the website.

Julie

Alan2005

http://www.bakabt.com/ is where I get most of my anime from.

MarkG

Just wanted to confirm that this is multi-region for Blu-Ray... about time!

CanadaJimmy

:bump:

Bought this today, absolutely fantastic player for my UK DVDs, and it *does* play MKVs off of FAT32 formatted drives, with subtitles and all! Yatta!

Fantastic player, well worth the money (about $103 altogether with taxes in BC)

Alan2005

How is it playing 1080p off an external hard drive?

Steve_P

Alan perhaps you should consider one of these http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735

Networkable (hard wire or wireless) and plays off an external drive.

$130 at Memory Express: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...4%28ME%29.aspx

$99.99 at Dell: http://accessories.dell.com/sna/prod...swvXQu6jZuLYwQ

I have mine networked and I'm really pleased with the image quality.

CanadaJimmy

Hmm well at the moment I've only got it hooked up with composite cables, and it's saying Video format unsupported with h264 and avc 1080p videos I've tried. Once I get an HDMI cable I'll try again, it might just not be able to scale them down or something.

Alan2005

That looks quite cool. I'd probably consider it if I didn't already currently have a mac mini plugged into the TV. It's ok for photos, video, web browsing (I'm using it right now in fact) etc. It's not actually that bad for video; it plays 720p no problems and some 1080p, but it struggles if there is a lot going on.

JET747

I am looking for a cheap DVD player that we also can play our numerous DVD's on - ie Multi Region....any tips on where and what to buy ??

Just wanted to check in as this thread is a little old

Thanks

JET

Pebblebeach

I would also be interested to know if anyone has found a region free DVD recently.

We have just bough a sony tv/blueray home cinema package at a brilliant price it plays both UK and NA blu-rays beautifully, together with DVDs bought here. It wont play the uk DVD's though. Any suggestions for a cheap DVD player that will play uk discs that I can add into my system? Thanks.

in the woods

Go to walmart see whats cheap take down model #'s and go home and see which one's can be hacked we got one for $50 3 years ago still going strong

Stonedog

Here you go, Canadian Tire, £30

It says it's Region 1 in the box, but it plays all our UK dvds with no issues whatsoever, no hacking required

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows....jsp?locale=en