region free dvd players/japan
jim figurski
i:m living in japan, and was just about to buy a region free player
off the net, but the salesman told me that even though most
electronics are compatible between the US and JAPAN, the signal may
not convert to NTSC if using a japanese TV. Anybody here ever have
that problem?
thanks
jim
jfig...@comcast.net
Reg. Blank
Japanese TV are NTSC, i.e. you can watch a U.S. purchased DVD (region
code 1) on your region free player on your Japanese TV. However, you
won't be able to watch a U.K. purchased DVD (region code 2, same as
Japan) because U.K. TV are PAL, which your Japanese TV can't comprehend.
Unless of course, you have a multisystem TV.
Reg.
Brett Robson
Quite a few NTSC DVD players will play PAL DVDs converting the output to NTSC.
My Marantz 4200 is both region free and will play PAL DVDs. English and
Australian DVDs are no problem.
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Graham Bell
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:48:35 +0900, Reg. Blank ...
>
>>
>>
>>jim figurski wrote:
>>
>>>does anyone here have a region free dvd player who:s living in japan?
>>>i:m living in japan, and was just about to buy a region free player
>>>off the net, but the salesman told me that even though most
>>>electronics are compatible between the US and JAPAN, the signal may
>>>not convert to NTSC if using a japanese TV. Anybody here ever have
>>>that problem?
>>
>>Japanese TV are NTSC, i.e. you can watch a U.S. purchased DVD (region
>>code 1) on your region free player on your Japanese TV. However, you
>>won't be able to watch a U.K. purchased DVD (region code 2, same as
>>Japan) because U.K. TV are PAL, which your Japanese TV can't comprehend.
>> Unless of course, you have a multisystem TV.
>>
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>
>
> Quite a few NTSC DVD players will play PAL DVDs converting the output to NTSC.
> My Marantz 4200 is both region free and will play PAL DVDs. English and
> Australian DVDs are no problem.
>
Yeah. There's a variety of region free DVD players available which do
both PAL and NTSC conversion (ie, NTSC->PAL, PAL->NTSC)
I have one myself which I bought here in Japan about 2 years ago. Many
are actually overseas models imported from Hong Kong or Singapore. The
places selling them are usually ones which specialise in duty free or
equipment intended for use overseas.
This is where I got mine from:
http://www.noguchi-nagoya.co.jp/
Some of the JVC and Sanyo players sold here will do PAL on an NTSC TV..
They don't sell the JVC model I have anymore, but I'm very happy with
it. My DVD collection includes stuff from R1,2,3 and 4 and it happily
plays any of them very nicely on my plain old NTSC-only domestic model
Sony TV.
As Brett said, pretty much the only time you'd have to worry about NTSC
conversion is if you get DVDs from the UK or Australia, where PAL is
used. If you're planning on getting R1 DVDs from the US, then no problem.
Lately though I've noticed places like Sofmap have been selling el
cheapo Chinese DVD players for about 10,000yen - a lot of these are
region free, but may not be marked as such. Only one way to be sure though..
Graham
Reg Blank
Graham Bell wrote:
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>
> Yeah. There's a variety of region free DVD players available which do
> both PAL and NTSC conversion (ie, NTSC->PAL, PAL->NTSC)
> I have one myself which I bought here in Japan about 2 years ago. Many
> are actually overseas models imported from Hong Kong or Singapore. The
> places selling them are usually ones which specialise in duty free or
> equipment intended for use overseas.
> This is where I got mine from:
>
> http://www.noguchi-nagoya.co.jp/
>
> Some of the JVC and Sanyo players sold here will do PAL on an NTSC TV..
>
> They don't sell the JVC model I have anymore, but I'm very happy with
> it. My DVD collection includes stuff from R1,2,3 and 4 and it happily
> plays any of them very nicely on my plain old NTSC-only domestic model
> Sony TV.
>
> As Brett said, pretty much the only time you'd have to worry about NTSC
> conversion is if you get DVDs from the UK or Australia, where PAL is
> used. If you're planning on getting R1 DVDs from the US, then no problem.
>
> Lately though I've noticed places like Sofmap have been selling el
> cheapo Chinese DVD players for about 10,000yen - a lot of these are
> region free, but may not be marked as such. Only one way to be sure
> though..
>
> Graham
My thanks to Brett and Graham for the information/corrections. I'll
keep that in mind when I shop for a replacement region-free player.
Reg.
Michael Cash
<grab...@netscape.net.dumb.spam> belched the alphabet and kept on
going with:
>Lately though I've noticed places like Sofmap have been selling el
>cheapo Chinese DVD players for about 10,000yen - a lot of these are
>region free, but may not be marked as such. Only one way to be sure though..
What's that? Do like the rest of the world and ask fjlij?
--
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Westernization in "The Last Samurai," another Hollywood epic that shows that
nobody embodies the nobility of an exotic foreign culture like a visiting white
guy."
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Marc
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>
> Graham Bell wrote:
> ...skipped...
> >
> > Yeah. There's a variety of region free DVD players available which do
> > both PAL and NTSC conversion (ie, NTSC->PAL, PAL->NTSC)
> > I have one myself which I bought here in Japan about 2 years ago. Many
> > are actually overseas models imported from Hong Kong or Singapore. The
> > places selling them are usually ones which specialise in duty free or
> > equipment intended for use overseas.
> > This is where I got mine from:
> >
> > http://www.noguchi-nagoya.co.jp/
> >
There are also numerous ways to hack a DVD player so that you can change the
region coding at will. This might be a less expensive option than buying a
multi-region player, which tend to be a little more expensive, and would
give you a wider selection of player. In many cases it involves opening up
the case and moving a switch, in other cases it involves using the remote
control and pushing an obscure (and unpublished) series of buttons. But for
every method the manufacturers devise to set the region coding their are
hoardes of little hackers on the internet who like nothing better than to
spend hours figuring it out and then announcing their results. Just do a few
google searches, and you will see what I mean.
Rodney Webster
"Marc" <box5...@spamtrap.net> wrote:
> There are also numerous ways to hack a DVD player so that you can change the
> region coding at will...
> <large snip>
> ...But for
> every method the manufacturers devise to set the region coding their are
> hoardes of little hackers on the internet who like nothing better than to
> spend hours figuring it out and then announcing their results. Just do a few
> google searches, and you will see what I mean.
For example this one in Japanese that also has information about
purchasing region free players in Japan:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/dvd9/
--
Rodney Webster
http://knot.mine.nu/