viewing region 1 dvd on region 2 dvd machine
Sachi Noma
someone suggest a way to view region 1 DVDs purchased in US on a region 1
DVD machine in Japan? Thank you.
Bryan Parker
I know you don't want a new machine but...
Costco sells region free machines for less than
10,000 yen. The guy at www.theflyingpig.com will
do your shopping for you for 13,000
http://tinyurl.com/lgvc.
Darrien
"Sachi Noma" <sno...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> I live in Japan (region 2). I want to purchase DVD in US (region 1). Can
> someone suggest a way to view region 1 DVDs purchased in US on a region 1
> DVD machine in Japan? Thank you.
>
What is the brand and model number of your player?
Some of them have codes you can enter via a remote to change the region code.
mr.sumo
> someone suggest a way to view region 1 DVDs purchased in US on a region 1
> DVD machine in Japan? Thank you.
Eiden tax-free in Nagoya had region-free, multi-voltage, PAL/NTSC
compatible DVD players for 17000 yen the other day - they'll deliver
I'm sure. Here's their address:
EIDEN DUTY FREE OSU
3-30-93,Osu,Naka-ku,Nagoya-shi,Aichi 460-0011 Japan
TEL:052-242-8595 FAX:052-242-8509
They speak English BTW.
NO - I didn't buy one for the trip to the UK - I DID buy a hot-water
pot - though frankly the concept of NOT putting the kettle on is a
little lost on my parents.
--
jonathan
marc
a little on your model, so I cannot give you exact information. But I would
suggest a google search using the model name and some other keyword such as
"region" or "international"
Sometimes it involves opening up the machine and changing a switch.
Sometimes it can be reprogrammed using a remote control. I saw one instance
in which the remote that came with the model would not do this, but a guy
picked up a different remote at HardOff for about 200 yen and used that to
reprogram his DVD.
"Sachi Noma" <sno...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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Sachi Noma
Thanks to your info and URL on multi region DVD player. The LG Region-Free
Capable DVD Player DVP-700 specs do not state it is multi region. Is there
some complicated procedure I must perform hardware-wise to make it all
region compatible?
"Bryan Parker" <puntspe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Bryan Parker
>I have not purchased a DVD player yet.
That makes things easier. I thought you wanted to
hack a machine that you already own.
>Thanks to your info and URL on multi region DVD player. The LG Region-Free
>Capable DVD Player DVP-700 specs do not state it is multi region. Is there
>some complicated procedure I must perform hardware-wise to make it all
>region compatible?
Put the CD-ROM (included with your purchase) in
the machine and follow the directions. That's it.
Sachi Noma
Very specifically I am thinking of purchasing "The Sopranos" DVD in US
during my visit there in October. I understand it is in the 4th season so I
plan to purchase Season 1 thru the most currently available DVD series.
From what I understand, there is really no guarantee that a region 1 DVD
disk would actually work on a region free player and the only way to find
out is to try it.
I am beginining to consider buying a region 1 DVD player in the US and bring
it to Japan. This way it is guranteed that I can view The Sopranos.
Does anyone know whether a US DVD player would work in Japan provided I
purchase the proper voltage converter. I assume there is no problem with
frequencies difference like that of TV.
"Bryan Parker" <puntspe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Thank you Bryan.
>
>Very specifically I am thinking of purchasing "The Sopranos" DVD in US
>during my visit there in October. I understand it is in the 4th season so I
>plan to purchase Season 1 thru the most currently available DVD series.
My understanding is that they were working on Season 6.
It is also my understanding that Seasons 1 through 4 are readily
available on Kazaa.
Sachi Noma
Thank you very much for introducing me to Kazaa. It's a very neat program.
"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
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Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Michael,
>
>Thank you very much for introducing me to Kazaa. It's a very neat program.
You are very welcome.
Now allow me to UNintroduce you to Kazaa. If you are using it, please
uninstall it immediately. Then visit http://www.kazaalite.tk/ and
download and install Kazaa-Lite instead. You will still be connected
to the same file-sharing network, but you won't have any spyware
installed on your computer and there won't be any advertisements sent
to your computer.
Kevin Wayne Williams
> Michael,
>
> Thank you very much for introducing me to Kazaa. It's a very neat program.
Just be aware that virtually all files obtained through Kazaa are stolen
from someone. If you are going to be a thief, that is your business. I
just thought you should be aware in advance.
KWW
Nicolas Santini
>
> I am beginining to consider buying a region 1 DVD player in the US and bring
> it to Japan. This way it is guranteed that I can view The Sopranos.
>
> Does anyone know whether a US DVD player would work in Japan provided I
> purchase the proper voltage converter. I assume there is no problem with
> frequencies difference like that of TV.
>
A DVD player bought in the USA (region 1) will work perfectly well in
Japan, as long as you play region 1 discs on it. A power transformer
is cheap (around 2500 yens).
Points to consider:
- cost to carry back as luggage, or ship as parcel
- your US warranty most likely won't be honoured in Japan
- parts might be hard to find in Japan, unless the same model exists
on sale domestically (as a region 2)
The first day you want to play a region 2 DVD, you'll regret having
imported this region 1 deck. You'd be better off buying a region-free
deck, though there is a slight risk with compatibilty issues (software
issuers are trying to make their discs not play at all on a region
free machine).
Hibijibi
> Just be aware that virtually all files obtained through Kazaa are stolen
> from someone. If you are going to be a thief, that is your business. I
> just thought you should be aware in advance.
Just to nitpick, infringement has a legal definition and set of
ramifications that are quite distinct from those for theft (let alone those
for piracy). For example, there are many situations where copyright
infringement is perfectly acceptable. Further, there are many files on
Kazaa placed there by their copyright owners with the full intent they be
shared as widely as possible. Lastly, it is not the user's responsibility
to verify whether such material has been infringed, just as it is not the
radio listener's responsibility to screen out songs that haven't earned the
royalties they should.
Now, providing material for *uploading* is a different matter...
best
hibijibi
--
"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure
of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
Clarence Darrow
Kevin Wayne Williams
> "Kevin Wayne Williams" wrote...
>
>>Just be aware that virtually all files obtained through Kazaa are stolen
>>from someone. If you are going to be a thief, that is your business. I
>>just thought you should be aware in advance.
>
>
> [snip]
>. Lastly, it is not the user's responsibility
> to verify whether such material has been infringed, just as it is not the
> radio listener's responsibility to screen out songs that haven't earned the
> royalties they should.
I think you have your analogy wrong. Kazaa is more like a guy selling
electronic equipment out of the back of a van in an alley at ten cents
on the dollar ... the presumption is that the material has been
illegally obtained and is being illegally distributed, with the
exceptions being rare.
KWW
Kevin Wayne Williams
> "Sachi Noma" <sno...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<birokt$coo9k$1...@ID-149597.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>
>>I am beginining to consider buying a region 1 DVD player in the US and bring
>>it to Japan. This way it is guranteed that I can view The Sopranos.
>>
>>Does anyone know whether a US DVD player would work in Japan provided I
>>purchase the proper voltage converter. I assume there is no problem with
>>frequencies difference like that of TV.
>>
>
>
> A DVD player bought in the USA (region 1) will work perfectly well in
> Japan, as long as you play region 1 discs on it. A power transformer
> is cheap (around 2500 yens).
>
> Points to consider:
> - cost to carry back as luggage, or ship as parcel
> - your US warranty most likely won't be honoured in Japan
> - parts might be hard to find in Japan, unless the same model exists
> on sale domestically (as a region 2)
>
> The first day you want to play a region 2 DVD, you'll regret having
> imported this region 1 deck.
I don't quite follow this. I have a region 2 DVD Japanese player and a
US region 1 player here in the US. The region 2 player happily runs on
US electricity, and I presume my region 1 player would like Japanese
electricity just fine. My video switcher has inputs from my US
DVD/LD/VCD player, my Japanese DVD/VCD player, the cable box, the VCR
connected to the A-cable analog feed and the VCR connected to the
B-cable analog feed. Adding the region 2 player to the mix cost me $80
bucks. What am I supposed to regret?
KWW
Rindler Sigurd
> uninstall it immediately. Then visit http://www.kazaalite.tk/ and
> download and install Kazaa-Lite instead. You will still be connected
> to the same file-sharing network, but you won't have any spyware
> installed on your computer and there won't be any advertisements sent
> to your computer.
>
>
Let me add something that can save you from getting into trouble...
If you just install Kazaa (or the light version), you still have all the
downloaded files sit in your "Shared Folder"... which means that everybody
can download from your machine, I think that this is the default setting in
Kazaa.
While nobody bothers if you store some oldies, there are other files which
can land you in prison.
If you happen to download a couple of commercial Microsoft and Adobe
programs, some brand new music albums, etc., you are illegally "selling"
them for free to the world without having a clue what's going on!
Either you disable sharing (which is against the spirit of using Kazaa), or
you move certain downloaded files immediately out into another folder. Many
peer-to-peer users apparently don't know about this danger....
The third advise would be forking out a lot of money to buy everything you
desire... like me. That's also the reason why I am so poor to be forced to
use Kazaa...:-)
Sigi
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Brett Robson
>
>Michael,
>
>Thank you very much for introducing me to Kazaa. It's a very neat program.
>
There is another system available, it's called Bryan Parker. Just email him your
request and he'll find it, usually within 24 hours. He's been very reliable so
far but lately he's let me down getting some unusual Austrian music.
.
----
"One way for us to be be seen as the ugly American is to go around the world
saying we do it this way so should you"
- Gov George W Bush
Rindler Sigurd
> far but lately he's let me down getting some unusual Austrian music.
>
>
You probably mean wombat farts. I am the authority on yodeling...
Michael Cash
<srin...@da2.so-net.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:
>> Now allow me to UNintroduce you to Kazaa. If you are using it, please
>> uninstall it immediately. Then visit http://www.kazaalite.tk/ and
>> download and install Kazaa-Lite instead. You will still be connected
>> to the same file-sharing network, but you won't have any spyware
>> installed on your computer and there won't be any advertisements sent
>> to your computer.
>>
>>
>
>Let me add something that can save you from getting into trouble...
>If you just install Kazaa (or the light version), you still have all the
>downloaded files sit in your "Shared Folder"... which means that everybody
>can download from your machine, I think that this is the default setting in
>Kazaa.
Options>Kazaa++ Options>Traffic
Place a check mark in the box "Disable sharing of files with other
users". Nobody can see what files you have and no one can get them.
Of course, it also makes you a one-way freeloading bastard, but it
does eliminate the concern you mention.
Michael Cash
<nih...@paxonet.kom> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Sachi Noma wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> Thank you very much for introducing me to Kazaa. It's a very neat program.
>
>Just be aware that virtually all files obtained through Kazaa are stolen
>from someone.
No shit?
>If you are going to be a thief, that is your business. I
>just thought you should be aware in advance.
Thanks for the heads up.
Graham Bell
> Nicolas Santini wrote:
>
>> A DVD player bought in the USA (region 1) will work perfectly well in
>> Japan, as long as you play region 1 discs on it. A power transformer
>> is cheap (around 2500 yens).
>>
>> Points to consider:
>> - cost to carry back as luggage, or ship as parcel
>> - your US warranty most likely won't be honoured in Japan
>> - parts might be hard to find in Japan, unless the same model exists
>> on sale domestically (as a region 2)
>>
>> The first day you want to play a region 2 DVD, you'll regret having
>> imported this region 1 deck.
>
> I don't quite follow this. I have a region 2 DVD Japanese player and a
> US region 1 player here in the US. The region 2 player happily runs on
> US electricity, and I presume my region 1 player would like Japanese
> electricity just fine. My video switcher has inputs from my US
> DVD/LD/VCD player, my Japanese DVD/VCD player, the cable box, the VCR
> connected to the A-cable analog feed and the VCR connected to the
> B-cable analog feed. Adding the region 2 player to the mix cost me $80
> bucks. What am I supposed to regret?
>
> KWW
>
Having to mess with 2 DVD players as opposed to 1 region free one, perhaps?
Graham
Scott Reynolds
> Options>Kazaa++ Options>Traffic
>
> Place a check mark in the box "Disable sharing of files with other
> users". Nobody can see what files you have and no one can get them.
>
> Of course, it also makes you a one-way freeloading bastard, but it
> does eliminate the concern you mention.
Don't lots of P2P users refuse to upload files to people who disable
file sharing?
I wouldn't know about this personally, of course. But I think I remember
hearing something to that effect.
--
_______________________________________________________________
Scott Reynolds s...@gol.com
Bryan Parker
>Hibijibi wrote:
>
>> "Kevin Wayne Williams" wrote...
>>
>>>Just be aware that virtually all files obtained through Kazaa are stolen
>>>from someone. If you are going to be a thief, that is your business. I
>>>just thought you should be aware in advance.
Also be aware that Kazaa Lite is "stolen".
Fotunately enough, Sharman Networks, owner of
Kazaa has a game plan -
Sue for copyright infringement.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=227
DougH
> disk would actually work on a region free player and the only way to find
> out is to try it.
>
> purchase the proper voltage converter. I assume there is no problem with
> frequencies difference like that of TV.
>
I have a Sampo 620 I bought when I was still in the U.S. and using the info on www.area450.com I made it region free. Plays every Japanese DVD I've rented so far and there's now problem with voltages. It handle it automatically. Most stuff these days do. There's also another page, www.dvdrhelp.com with plenty of info on which players can and can't be made region free and how. Have fun.
DougH
DougH
excuse the typo. I meant to say.....There's no problem with voltages.
DougH
Rafael Caetano
> Costco sells region free machines for less than
> 10,000 yen. The guy at www.theflyingpig.com will
> do your shopping for you for 13,000
> http://tinyurl.com/lgvc.
I went to Costco, paid the 4000Y subscription fee, just to find out
that they don´t sell region-free DVD players anymore. ´Chotto mondai
desukedo blablabla´. I immediately got my money back...
I´ll mail the guys at flyingpig but I doubt that they have it in
stock.
[]s
Rafael
Bryan Parker
That:s too bad. I was at the Costco in
Minami-Osawa this afternoon and they still had a
lot of them for sale.
Nicolas Santini
The 10 to 20V difference between North America and Japan may end up
damaging your equipment if not using the proper power transformer. It
depends on how the internal power supply was designed, specifically
how it can dissipate the extra energy coming from the higher voltage.
Considering how cheap a tranformer is, it is not worth taking the
risk.