Out of the box it will NOT play my British TV imports on my USPanasonic TV, I recently purchased Wolf Hall from Amazon UK, it won't play?
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HI before opening box there should be a sticker saying REGION FREE or it will not play or google 220electronic or bombay eletronics they only sell region free dvd players hope this helps. you need a REGION FREE dvd player. hope this helps. Brian
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This player will play both formats ntsc (USA) and pal (European) So far it's played anything I've put in it. Try one you'll like it.Ken
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Diana,Did you get it to play foreign dvd's on it or did you find a player that plays dvd's other than region 1?Thanks.
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Mine worked fine, real simple with this TV. Have you played these region 2 dvds on anything else but this TV? The Proscan plays authentic DVDs easily. Are you having problems with regular DVD movies...they play fine?
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The N. American version will NOT play PAL or 50hz DVDs. I'd expect if Sony sold this model in a 50hz country it would play PAL but ones for the US will not play PAL.
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I am sorry, I can't help you there as I am in the UK and bought the DVD player for my partner who lives in the US so she could watch Region 2 DVDs. I would suggest you contact Toshiba. Otherwise, you can sometimes get a universal remote that can be adapted to work on your player.
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Thanks, Bishop, for your reply. I liked your last statement (very funny!). A couple of hours after i went out to get this model at Best Buy (i just couldn't wait!), a friend showed me the all-region equivalent (also from Pioneer) featured on this same Amazon site! Well, at least they claim it's all region, but seems some customers have had to get guarantees from the supplier that the unit will indeed play all types of discs. A bit confusing. ;)
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Did anyone solve this problem? So far it plays none of my European blu rays and I get the same error message.
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I played a region 2 DVD(UK) In The Machine The Other day and It Played Automatically With No Problem
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I have tried using PlayOn with my LN46a750 with no luck. The TV sees the server fine and I can navigate to Netflix, hulu etc, but when I try playing a file, the tv processes it for about 15 seconds and then shows an "Cannot play this files" error message. Anyone have any luck getting this working?
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We found it played both Oz and UK DVDs but only some, it mostly failed to play both. Hope that helps.
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JV - Thanks a lot! I could not figure out why my dvds wouldn't play on other dvd players. There is nothing to clue you in that you need to finalize them.
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My Unit never played DVDs from the beginning. Never played DVDs from the box. I thought it was a region code issue but it is not. Then I though it was an Firmware issue so I upgraded from V26 to V29. Still does not play DVDs. I bought it from Amazon LLC directly. If I would have found out this after I purchased the unit, I would have gave Amazon a piece of my mind. But it's too late now as a couple years has gone by. Please learn from my mistake. I bought a VERY EXPENSIVE CD Player (Philips HTS8100/37).
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Thanks, Grumpy Jay! About 70% of my movie list is classic movies, so that's perfect! And I'm very interested in checking out the British line, too. Woohoo!I don't yet have an HD TV. Hopefully I'll get one this year, but it's on the back burner for now. I'm assuming the Roku HD Player will work even w/o HD TV, right? And I have to have wireless, I'm guessing, which I do.Thanks again, Everyone! I really appreciate all the input!CJ
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Strange, everywhere I've read states that Toshiba players are region free. I think the thing is with some euro discs is that they require you to use HDMI or they get downscaled to 480p. That's the only problem I've read about yet and it's only on some of them. Maybe that was the case and the T.V. was trying to do 1080i/p and wasn't prepared for it so it didn't allow a picture. Are you using component or HDMI?
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I bought it for my daughter to use and watch UK set of Downton Abbey DVDs when those were only ones available--I think there is a switch to change for different formats but not certain-- I had good luck emailing the company selling them when I needed a new in-home charging cord=maybe try them if no other info...
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Description indicates that the unit is region free and one answer to an earlier question indicated the responder played both region 1 and region 4 disks with no problems. I am currently waiting for seller to response to request for verification as to the unit being region free and will post when/if I get a response. I wanted to verify with seller as amazon site has confusing phrasing between a unit being region free (what you want) and units being NTSC/PAL compatible which would mean that the unit could be used with either a US or a UK television set ( US is NTSC and UK is PAL)