chattyj

I wonder if someone could answer a question for us. We're hopefully moving to Vancouver in June and wonder if you can buy multi-region dvd players as we want to be able to play UK dvds in Canada?

EVA3695

Hi there,
Yes...we bought a dvd from walmart for about $70, I went on the internet and got a code online - from what I remember I opened the dvd tray typed in a code with the remote and changed it to multi-region...we can now play all our canadian bought dvds along with all the old dvds we shipped over. It was easy peasy.....hope that helps.

Posidrive

We bought a cheap and cheerful Walmart DVD player when we arrived a couple of years ago and it was already region free out of the box, some other Walmart DVD players may need a code.

As a general comment, if you want a region free DVD player, avoid the big name brands such as Pioneer. They can be almost impossible to make region free.

MarkG

Yeah, my $30 Future Shop player was region-free out of the box, but it's not very good with scratched disks (we borrow quite a few from the library to watch) and screws up playing .avi files from CD-Rs.

fuschiagirl

We bought a Phillips for about $50 from Walmart last month. We had to download the code to change it to multi region but it was dead easy.

Danny B

Where do you get these codes from?

I bought a $38 special from Walmart and cannot find a code anywhere. It's a Magnavox BDP170MW8 and if anyone can get me a code I'll send you some virtual beer

Almost Canadian

Try here http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

Mine's a Caffreys

Ben W Bell

That model doesn't seem to be hackable. No hacks for it on any of the usual suspect sites.

chattyj

Many thanks for all the replies. Its so helpful having all this ready advice and for free too!
We're getting to countdown stage and moving out of our home of 16yrs in two weeks so its all becoming very real.

Will no doubt be asking more advice yet.
Thanks again.

rae

$30, MAX, all region, PAL/NTSC converter, Future shop.

Danny B

Thanks for the help, still no codes available though...I guess my Little Britain DVD will be staying in its case a little longer.

xxalxx

no loss then :P

rae

on a different note, looking to spend some holiday time in your neck of the woods, recommend any decent hotels/self catering appts near beach front? ta rae.

Danny B

There is only one Riverfront hotel that I know of but it's on an industrial estate http://www.kamloops.com/riverlandmotel/

Plenty of decent other places to stay though but they are all in town and a short drive to the beach.

We stayed in a self catering family suite at the Comfort Inn for 6 weeks when we first arrived in Canada. It's on page 2 http://www.all-hotels.com/canada/bri...kamloops_1.htm

rae

niceone thanks