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Finally persuaded the mrs that we should get a Blu-ray player... are there any on the market that play region 1 (USA) dvds - or should I just keep my old player anyway for R1 stuff?

Cheers.

No there aren`t any Blu-ray machines that`ll play R1 DVDs. There are companies claiming they can chip them to work, but there are serious doubts they work, or will continue to work. Keep your old DVD machine for your R1s

J Mark Oates

If you go to an American Toys`r`us (or Woolworths), pick one up and just say something like "the lady said I could have one and walk out with 1 ;) ;)

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If you go to an American Toys`r`us (or Woolworths), pick one up and just say something like "the lady said I could have one and walk out with 1
Good idea, lol :p

Yes there is a few on the market that can play Reg1 dvds...
Ive been after one myself and have been eyeing up the Panasonic BD30.
Does anyone own one, and have you had any probs with it?

The new Sony BDP-S350 is being sold multi-region for SD from certain retailers. The 550 might have the same hack when it`s released this week.

I bought a Panasonic Blu-ray DMP-BD50 Player recently from Richer Sounds in Edinburgh.

I got a pleasant surprise when I tested it with a region one disc and discovered that the video and audio playback was excellent.

I tried several more region one discs and got the same results.

The machine was a standard model and was not chipped or modified.

For reference; page 14 of the manual states "Signal from PAL discs is output as PAL. Signal from NTSC discs is output as 'NTSC' or PAL 60."

On the Specifications page, the Signal System is listed as PAL/NTSC.

Hope this helps any prospective buyers

[quote]Yes there is a few on the market that can play Reg1 dvds...[/quote[
Really, if it`s playing on all regions, it`s actually region 0 rather than specifically region 1.

I`ve noticed there are (or were) quite a few seller on eBay offering a remote control (the actual remote - not a hack) to make the Panasonic DMP BD30 multi-regional...

Plus there are a few sellers selling the actual player already modified, so it looks as though this can play back all standard-def region discs.

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I bought a Panasonic Blu-ray DMP-BD50 Player recently from Richer Sounds in Edinburgh.

I got a pleasant surprise when I tested it with a region one disc and discovered that the video and audio playback was excellent.

I tried several more region one discs and got the same results.

The machine was a standard model and was not chipped or modified.

For reference; page 14 of the manual states "Signal from PAL discs is output as PAL. Signal from NTSC discs is output as 'NTSC' or PAL 60."

On the Specifications page, the Signal System is listed as PAL/NTSC.

Hope this helps any prospective buyers
All R2 DVD players must support NTSC because there are countries in R2 that use the NTSC system. Japan is one example, but there are actually quite a few UK discs that are NTSC. The ability to play NTSC doesn`t necessarily mean multi-region.

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Really, if it`s playing on all regions, it`s actually region 0 rather than specifically region 1.
Technically there`s no such thing as `region 0`. Multi-region players are just that, players that can play back every region. Region free discs aren`t really region free either, they are just coded for all regions.

Sorry to be captain logic, but it`s true.