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airbornesapper Mar 16th 2011 4:48 am

Re: Multi region DVD player
 

Originally Posted by ultrarunner (Post 9244132)
You could always just buy a hard drive in an enclosure 1-3 TB, hand it over to a friend that downloads movies and get them to fill it up for ya, then plug it directly to your tv via HDMI.

Netflix from what I have heard, is just full of older movies


Thanks for the tip....done all that....the only thing not wired up to the hilt in this house is me....subject to change...walks to beer fridge...

Have a good one...AS

tomtatew May 26th 2011 9:14 am

Re: Multi region DVD player
 

Originally Posted by ultrarunner (Post 9241851)
Why bother with a dvd when you can have a Blu-Ray player for $100 that players region 1 and 2?

Where did you buy it and what is the name and model?:confused:

MarkG May 26th 2011 11:25 am

Re: Multi region DVD player
 

Originally Posted by tomtatew (Post 9390408)
Where did you buy it and what is the name and model?:confused:

Seiki BD660 from Walmart. The second one we bought was $78, no idea what the price is today.

Note that many cheap Blu-Ray players can be hacked to play multi-region DVD, but the BD660 is the only one I know of that's multi-region for Blu-Ray as well.

JGK May 28th 2011 2:54 am

Re: Multi region DVD player
 

Originally Posted by MarkG (Post 9390657)
Seiki BD660 from Walmart. The second one we bought was $78, no idea what the price is today.

Note that many cheap Blu-Ray players can be hacked to play multi-region DVD, but the BD660 is the only one I know of that's multi-region for Blu-Ray as well.

I bought one of those as well. When I was in the process of purchasing it I needed the staff on electrical to get one out of the security net they had over the boxes. While he was getting me the box the staff member told me that in the 6 months of selling the model they'd had zero returns and he was now considering getting one. It would appear the staff use this as a "check before you buy" system.

MarkG May 28th 2011 5:32 pm

Re: Multi region DVD player
 
Yeah, the BD660s have lasted much better than the $200 LG Blu-Ray we had before it; that one died after six months, spent the best part of a year in for warranty repairs and they eventually sent it back saying they couldn't fix it or replace it. First and last LG product I've bought.

We bought a second BD660 because our old multi-region DVD player died and we leave one set for US Blu-Rays and the other for UK Blu-Rays so we don't have to remember the magic remote code to switch between them :).


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