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In Reply to: Japan versus USA dvd playback posted by chris e. on December 11, 2001 at 00:06:20:
Japan is region 2, but is NTSC and the same voltage as the US. I live in Japan and play US discs on a Japanese region-free machine.Europe is also region 2, but uses PAL, so I can't play european discs on my Japanese machine.
So if you buy a Japanese DVD player, just make sure its region-free or can be hacked to play region 1 disks. It will plug in the wall and play NTSC no problem.
Pioneer and Panasonic players can generally be modified to play region 1 disks, but it costs. Many others such as Toshiba or Hitachi often have secret keypress-combinatiions to 'unlock' them to play different zones.
Follow Ups:
Japanese equipment is 60 Hz as US is, but the voltage is only 100V, not 117V as US is. Step-down transformers are available for as little as $20-30 to allow Japanese equipment to be played in the US. In many cases, the Japanese equipment will function on the higher voltage, but it is certainly wiser to run it on the voltage it was designed for.Todd
Most Japanese electrical goods handle an input of 100-120V, at 50-60hz. This is because in Japan 50 or 60 hz are both used depending on the area, and costs are kept down by allowing a high tolerance of the input voltage and producing only 1 model for many different countries.
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Do you have any specific suggestions about the Pioneer players? I'm going to Tokyo next week and I was thinking of buying the new dvd/dvd-a/sacd (all in one) player. The only hesitation is that it is Japanese marketed in Japan so, presumably, it will be region 2 only. I'm planning on bringing it back to the US for use but this suggests that I'm stuck on using it as a regular dvd player.Any ideas?
Vtec sell a kit called i-mod which can be used to modify Pioneer DVD players. I'm trying to get hold of one, but they cost $500 each, and subsequent 'credits' to modify each player cost $20. The credits are simply software licenses. I wish to modify my AX10, which is the big brother of the 747 you're talking about. It is stated on the vtec website that this is possible.Because the 747 is new, the website doesn't mention that it's hackable with the same kit, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is.
However $500 for the kit is ridiculous, unless you get a group of friends to do the same thing.
You're probably better off waiting for the US release, or trying to get one from HK where region coding is less strictly enforced.
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