DVD/DivX player – region free

[liamegan2000]

A few people have asked me about region free DVD players, and I know the
subject has come up on here a few times, so for those of us in the UK and
Europe (with the possible exception of France and its odd TV system) :

Toshiba SD-270E,
I bought mine from Novatech
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?tos-sd270e&P=0 and it is
presently on offer from them at £34.99. A search in Google will no doubt
find other sellers in your area (or if you are outside the UK).

You have to re-set or "hack" the region setting. Very easy, the region hack
instructions are here:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/toshiba-sd270e/8208

I've been using it for about 4 months now. It plays all makes of burned
discs I have, which includes Sony TDK Ritek Datawrite Verbatim BulkPak
Maxell etc as well as Tesco's own brand, and obviously commercial DVDs,
including some a friend bought in New York that were region 1, plus all my
DivX and XvidD discs as well.

If you are looking for a cheapish player, it is a good machine –
recommended.

Bill.

[garth3639]

Bill,

From your email you seem to have tried out several brands of DVD
blank discs. I have a Sony DVD recorder, a desktop PC fitted with a
Sony DVD writer and a Lite-On writer, and an old IBM notebook with an
IBM-branded DVD writer made by Panasonic. I've had my fingers burned
with a couple of brands of blank discs which haven't worked in some
or all of these. I now use Imation or Verbatim (including double-
layer if needed) and these work OK in everything I've got.

I see you mention Tesco discs, and a friend uses these in his DVD
recorder and for his computer with no problems. Have you found any
problems with these?

Regards,

Garth

— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "Bill"
<william.whittaker1@…> wrote:

>
> A few people have asked me about region free DVD players, and I

know the

> subject has come up on here a few times, so for those of us in the

UK and

> Europe (with the possible exception of France and its odd TV

system) :

>
> Toshiba SD-270E,
> I bought mine from Novatech
> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?tos-sd270e&P=0

and it is

> presently on offer from them at £34.99. A search in Google will no

doubt

> find other sellers in your area (or if you are outside the UK).
>
> You have to re-set or "hack" the region setting. Very easy, the

region hack

> instructions are here:
> http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/toshiba-sd270e/8208
>
> I've been using it for about 4 months now. It plays all makes of

burned

> discs I have, which includes Sony TDK Ritek Datawrite Verbatim

BulkPak

> Maxell etc as well as Tesco's own brand, and obviously commercial

DVDs,

> including some a friend bought in New York that were region 1, plus

all my

> DivX and XvidD discs as well.
>
> If you are looking for a cheapish player, it is a good machine –
> recommended.
>
> Bill.
>

[liamegan2000]

I've used Tesco DVD -R, CD-R and some DVD +R. This must run into hundreds
of discs by now as I archive my VHS tapes to disc.

I don't honestly remember a failure with one of the discs except where I'd
screwed something up.

I'm using a NEC 4550A burner which is a couple of years old in the PC.

Bill.

—– Original Message —–
From: garth3639
To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Re: DVD/DivX player – region free

Bill,

From your email you seem to have tried out several brands of DVD
blank discs. I have a Sony DVD recorder, a desktop PC fitted with a
Sony DVD writer and a Lite-On writer, and an old IBM notebook with an
IBM-branded DVD writer made by Panasonic. I've had my fingers burned
with a couple of brands of blank discs which haven't worked in some
or all of these. I now use Imation or Verbatim (including double-
layer if needed) and these work OK in everything I've got.

I see you mention Tesco discs, and a friend uses these in his DVD
recorder and for his computer with no problems. Have you found any
problems with these?

Regards,

Garth

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