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Toshiba HD-E1 DVD Player Region Free for HD DVDS

Jackie Stait (Competent) posted this on Monday, 26th March 2007, 20:59

Hi there

If anyone has one of these HD DVD players please can you tell me if you can play American HD DVDs on them its just that I read that this machine is region free for HD DVDs but region 2 for standard DVDs. Can anbody help me on this matter?

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Jackie

RE: Toshiba HD-E1 DVD Player Region Free for HD DVDS

badboybez (Elite) posted this on Monday, 26th March 2007, 22:12

I think all HD-DVD discs are region free at the moment (I stand to be corrected) although this may not be the case for long - so your machine should be able to play all HD-DVD`s.

Also found this in a review:- Quote:
Like the Xbox 360 drive, the HD-E1 will happily play HD DVD discs from both Region 1 and 2, but it resolutely refused to play anything but Region 2 DVDs. I'm sure that a hack will appear on the Net at some point to enable multi-Region support on the HD-E1 though, but of course Toshiba could never support such a feature officially!



This item was edited on Monday, 26th March 2007, 23:15

RE: Toshiba HD-E1 DVD Player Region Free for HD DVDS

jakeh (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 27th March 2007, 07:24

badboybez is correct.

No HD-DVD player has region coding set for HD-DVD`s which means you can import discs from all over the world. When it comes to normal DVD`s it`s a different matter as they still are region coded so think carefully about whether you go for a UK player or import.

Toshiba have also said that the existing players that are region free will not be retrospectively updated to implement region coding on high def discs.

RE: Toshiba HD-E1 DVD Player Region Free for HD DVDS

DavoTheMainMan (Competent) posted this on Saturday, 31st March 2007, 16:41

I don`t think they will ever change this... maybe they have learned a valuable lesson, that the original and current SD DVD region encoding is really pointless and just forces people to import.



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