How can simple appliances become so complicated? Yesterday, our two months old Toshiba DVD player died after a power surge. Actually, it did not die completely. It just did not play DVDs anymore. Audio CDs and Video CDs still worked fine. Bummer. It was capable of playing DVDs from all regions, and it was able upconvert DVDs to HDTV.
All this stuff you need to worry about. The movie industry came up with this great idea of carving the world up into regions. North American DVDs are region 1. So are most players that are sold here. These players won't play the DVDs I receive from Holland, which is in region 2. Neither do they play DVDs that Ina buys in Indonesia. This regions nightmare spawned a slew of businesses specialized in selling region free DVD players, so people can enjoy movies from their home countries.
While searching the web for ways to cure our Toshiba, I discovered that many ordinary DVD players can be made region free. So I re-installed our old Philips player and found the procedure to make it region free on Google. Victory! Now I just need to get the Toshiba back to work.
1 comment:
Hi Fred, Ik was getriggerd door je verhaal over de reguiovrije DVD. Dus ik ook aan de slag met onze LG. Niet dat ik veel buitenregio dvd's heb (eigenlijk geen) maar toch , het gevoel gereguleerd te worden sprak mij ook niet aan. Even op google gezocht en eigenlijk was ik daar te lui voor dus gebruikte ik jou link en zag daar ook wat LG info, proberen gewoon, tja die deed het dus helemaal niet meer, toen hadden we niks meer. regina blij, die wilde toch al van deze klote dvd speler af, maar helaas, ze heft hem zelf gemaakt met de juiste codes en nu hebben we dus tot in lengte van jaren een regiovrije klote dvd.
gr.
Albert
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