hi everyone, im a total novice at all this..... ive got loads of vhs videos, dvds and tapes and cd's all about fitness and different routines; is it poss for me to play them in canada on your equipment? some of the videos are home-made.

If the DVD can be hacked or chipped to be multi region then yes. The videos will not play unless you have a PAL vhs player. Cd's are fine.

....and if you do, the TV won't recognise the signal unless you bring a Brit TV or have a multisystem TV.

Unless I've been misinformed for the last few years.

With the number of VHS tapes I have, if I was doing it all again, I'd have shipped a TV/VHS combo with them.

Correct.

Phew....the thought of having all those tapes and not watching them when I could have.....

i am a fitness instructor so i need to be able to play them....
thanks everyone for the info kim...

I bought a DVD player here in Canada, it is an ITT, and I was able to unlock the player so it plays all regions.

It was looking for hack codes for our DVD player that I found the BE web site and somebody had posted a website address on it.
www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

me too - but have just found out that they dont teach Les Mill Fitpro Body Pumpand Body Combat on West coast !!

Oh no BTS Les Mill AUk, split and there is now a BTs usa that teaches "group power" pump and group kick - combat!! althoug Gabby etc are doing the group kick Choreo!!
looks like I may need to re train when I arrive!!

That wouldn't help if the TV wouldn't recognise a PAL signal, only if the player also did conversion as well as region free to a Canadian TV.

I don't know it my DVD player does conversion, but it plays my English DVD's with no problem.

It must do or you are lucky and the TV will display both signals ( very rare over here ) but pretty standard on good UK TVs.

I haven't found a multi-region DVD player here that doesn't handle the PAL bit... and I've been through a few already

I believe the cheap Chinese multi-region DVD players are all basically the same chips in different boxes with different firmware, so they should all work.

For VHS tapes, the simple solution is to copy them to DVD.