DVD players are pretty easy to find multiregion and PAL/NTSC compatible, at least in Europe... I'm *sure* that if you go to the right place, a specialist hifi store or electronics dept, you could find em. Or order them online.
With the upscaling players coming out, the PAL/NTSC issue is moot (imo) because all the TVs should support all the various framerates, and hell the player will probably IVTC as required on the fly. Of course, having an HTPC or media box solves this problem entirely... VLC is truly region and format agnostic :D I don't think any American could be accused of breaking the law just by importing a DVD from another region - I import Region 4 DVDs of new Asian movies all the time (gotta get my kung fu fix!) and I've never been brought in by Special Branch for a 'quick chat.' I thought that the DVD industry had pretty much given up on region coding, acknowledging that it was nigh-on useless - it was only an attempt on their part to artificially stifle the spread of new DVDs so they could make more money from staggering the release dates across the world. But, of course, what do we have now? Sameday cinema/DVD rental and simultaneous worldwide release of big films... Region coding was a bad idea, poorly implemented and uncared for by the industry producing the playback hardware. I'm glad it pretty much died a death, but it's still a royal pain in the backside sometimes. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Plowright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 June 2007 00:02 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] DVD Region 2 > > > I believe the reason that multi-region DVD players are hard > to find in > > the States is simply because multi-standard televisions are > uncommon there. > > Aha, occam's razor. Of course - the Pal/Ntsc thing is the showstopper > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
