Subject: Re: [B7L] Videos and DVDs To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se
In a message dated 02/09/2002 12:07:30 AM Central Standard Time, julia.jones@jajones.demon.co.uk writes:
Are multi-region players available in Region 1?
They are, but they're very expensive and hard to find, at least in the area where I live.
Tiger M
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The last time I looked on Ebay you could buy multi-region DVD players for something like $160 plus about $13 postage in the US. If you can believe the blurbs, these are the very same machines being sold for $300 by some stores.
I have a friend who bought one off of Ebay and swears by it. The one she recommends is
ACI all-region compact portable DVD player.
To get to the information, just type in ACI DVD in the Ebay search slot.
My friend warns against buying zero region players--at least, that is what I think she called them. Presumably some DVDs say they play every region and do not. There were a lot of problems involving DVD players which she was talking about, but I don't remember what all she said. She did say there was also some reason for waiting to buy a DVD player, too, because some new advancements might be made in the next year.
The ACI DVD plays both region 1 and region 2. My friend says it's very easy to change the code by using the remote. She was just recommending to a bunch of us two weeks ago at a local (California) m/m slash fanclub party that we should all buy one since many of us like British TV series.
She claims, and I have no clue if this is true or not, that we Americans, also, want to be able to play British DVDs because some of the British DVDs will have more information on them than the American ones. One of the series she mentioned where this would be true was Stargate. I personally find this hard to believe. I don't see why there would be differing amounts of information on a specific TV series depending what region the DVD is made for.
I will be buying a multi-region DVD once it is for sure that B7 does come out on DVD. I'm not going to hold my breath. And then I will probably buy the multi-region ACI DVD player and ONE B7 DVD to make sure it does work before I invest in the entire series.
Joyce