Can it play DVDs from another region/country? For example, DVDs from Japan
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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)
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No, it is Region One restricted. It will play Region 0 discs also, but not other regions.
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I'm not sure if it play BluRay discs (I don't own any), but it does play both the English & Australian DVDs we have.
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So no current Toshiba HD-DVD players (A2, A3, A30, A35, x2, etc) can play my non-US DVDs? Like my region3 Asian DVDs or my region2 japanese anime? Can any high-definition dvd-player (blu ray or HD DVD) play other-region standard DVDs?
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No, it does not. It only plays DVDs from the region where you buy the player. Source: personal experience :(
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It plays all region dvd's but not blu ray's.I bought it because I have several dvd's from France that I wanted to play and they work fine. Hope that helps.Thanks
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Thank you for your interest in our products. It can play Region A BluRay Disc and Region2 DVD on this recorder. We hope this information is helpful for you. We are looking forward to hearing form you soon. Reboot Japan
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I am not sure about dvd's from other countries. I do know that it plays alot of formats, but am not sure of the format other countries use. Sorry I could not be of more help.
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Yes it Does Play PAL discs, BUT, they have to be ALL region or region A/1. Same with DVD's, if they are all region PAL, it WILL play it.gerard masters
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Yes it does. It will play Pal also. I haven't played any other region DVDs. There are instructions for other regions but I haven't used that option. Nice player. Hope this helps !!!
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Almost every Blu-ray or DVD player from Sony will only play discs for the region it is sold. Only a modified Sony player will play multiple regions , which will of course void its warranty.
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Tv isn't the issue as all you need to do is hook up bd player to any tv around the world with hdmi. This player can play dvds and be discs from any region. I've tried discs from Japan, Europe, and U.S.
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Do you mean this player can be used anywhere?it is compatible with any type of DVDs
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Hi. I'm not sure? I live in The U.S.. I'm sure if you have a region 1 compatible dvd player it might work. Hope that helps.
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You have to set a region first (which I don't want to do) because the drive comes region-free (with firmware level RPC-2). As is, I have tried playing a Region 2 DVD from Japan using MPC HC, VLC and Power DVD 10 and only MPC was able to open the disk but the image was heavily pixelized and it eventually crashed.
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I'm sorry I don't know the answer to this. I'm British and my wife lives in Arizona, so I got the DVD player so that we can watch Region 2 DVDs as well as Region 1 when I visit. We have never used it to play music on.
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I do not know if it will play these disks. I have never tried to play any type of audio disc on it, only out of region DVDs is all I use it for.