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.
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Follow Ups
- Not region 1. - lindseyp 01:33:07 12/11/01 (6)
- Re: Not 117V - Lasermeister 06:52:07 12/15/01 (1)
- no problem. - lindseyp 21:52:32 12/16/01 (0)
- All dvd can be change to code free! nt - Patrick UITZ 13:29:03 12/12/01 (3)
- how is this done? - chris e. 00:05:25 12/13/01 (2)
- vtec? - lindseyp 05:27:08 12/13/01 (1)
- thanks for the info! (nt) - chris e. 02:24:51 12/14/01 (0)