Comments on: Japanese Websites: Buying A Region-Free DVD Player

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:58:51 +0000

If you’re lucky enough to live in the UK, you don’t need one; Japan is Region 2, same as Britain.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:50:39 +0000

This might save people a few bucks: Most DVD players can be made region-free using certain key combinations on the remote. Search for your DVD player model and ‘region free unlock’ or something like that. I just unlocked my Philips DVD-622 last night. I don’t have any other-region DVDs to test with yet, but the knowledge that I could watch them is thrilling!

By: ryan andrews

ryan andrews — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:07:26 +0000

You probably already know this, but for those who don’t, VLC media player (free downloadable software) will let you play Japanese dvds on your laptop.

By: jhr

jhr — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:53:56 +0000

It’s not in Japanese and for those in Japan it may be less useful if model numbers are different, but I always just go to http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers to look up models I’m considering. It will have an entry if there is a known trick to get it to be region free. Last time I bought a dvd player, I got one that was $30 at best buy and it turned out that it could be made region free with a code on the remote and it could also play PAL dvds on an NTSC tv. Unless it has become much harder to become similar players I wouldn’t recommend buying some really expensive one from sites that sell them. Also, on computers you just need the right software to be able to play disks from any region.

By: saleem

saleem — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:12:12 +0000

I know your way all over this web thing, but I just found a nice page o’ links that might come in handy for your Japanese websites roundup:
http://japan.alltop.com/
(lists sites in both English and Japanese)