Works with regular US region DVDs, but not what wanted it for
929635
It is not a region free DVD player as advertised, I got this specifically in order to play some import DVDs, so it is very disappointing that the first DVD import (Felidae-Region 2 PAL) I get does not work at all.
3886098
The seller shipped my unit promptly. I hooked up the HDMI cable and powered it up. I watched a region 2 comedy series and several Region 1 movies in 3D. It works fine. No difference in quality from my Samsung 3D Bluray player. I ordered two 3D nature movies (earth3D & SAFARI 3D) without any thought to the region codes. They are both 'E'-- meaning 'exempt from classification'. Earth3D will NOT play. The error says, "mismatch between disc and player region codes. the disc will not be played." SAFARI 3D played flawlessly. I cannot figure why. There must be a difference in the way the discs are coded.
As a precaution, do not order "Region Free Discs".

Update 12/13/12:  I ordered a Region B Bluray disc from Amazon that did not play. A message displayed on the screen stating that this disc only plays in region B players. The same message also displayed on my region A Bluray player. This was my 5th foreign released blueray purchase. Fortunately one of them was a 4 season comedy series. Still 60% is not a good success rate. I don't know whether buy another brand region free player or accept not being able to view the two movies that I can't see. I'll try to contact the manufacturer to see if they can help me play them.
2170992
Same here, didn't work. It's not region free as the back of the box says. My SONY BD player failed to read this after struggling for few seconds. So, basically it's a zero star, not one!
3511624
Bought this and it won't play in any of my DVD players cause it says "incorrect region" kinda bummed now...
1647876
I bought this for a family friend visiting from Europe and as he had several DVD-R he had made on his Sony unit in Europe, therefore, I was hoping that this would play them.

A no go. Ughhh!

A bit disappointing.
4786214
Listen up people I hope this helps you?all you have to do is change your dvds go to all and find 9 turn it of and then after 5 minutes it we'll play multi regional 1,2,3,4,5 6,pal so don't disparaging it can be fixed if you have problems go to your internet for multi Reginald and it we'll be more clear buy the way I was so bsaponted in the package if i sent it back and also I ordered a new one and got a used one for the same price!! Not even what he'd the dvds
1200719
Unfortunately, this machine as a DVD player is of no use to me playing DVDs on Region 4 - as I live in Australia the PAL format for DVDs is Region 4 - so all Australian DVDs cannot be accepted by this machine.

I have also tried English DVDs - Region 2 - which is not acceptable either.

I would appreciate your feedback regarding this matter.
579248
Story line and CHARACTER aside, selling a presumably Canadian or European region coded movie within the USA IS a lowering of the customer service bar. The solution is buying a "region free" dvd/blue ray player. Second,  this is a 2 disc box, 1 english and 1 french. Whatever, now i can binge Star Wars.. in ENGLISH.
1455828
Somehow I didn't notice that it's a Region 2 copy which means it won't play through my DVD player but luckily my laptop can change settings so we enjoyed this until I brought a proper US version.
4650003
Region 2 DVD-will not play on an American DVD player.  Beware of this seller.
552636
I bought this with a region free dvd player and the region free player didn't play it .

I ended up converting it from PAL into the NTSC format and now it plays flawlessly .
500656
Moved to the US, bought this DVD/Blu-ray player because of the Multizone feature (having Blu-rays from Europe and buying US Blu-rays). Unfortunately, some of the movies from Europe (Ratatouille) as well as some from the US (Free Birds) simply won't play and the player will display a message saying the zones are not compatible.
463273
The reason I bought this DVD player (bought Dec 2005 at BestBuy) is for the ease with which this player can be made to play DVDs bought from other countries. My family has a number of DVDs with great children's content from our relatives who live aross the ocean -- we used to play them only on a personal computer and hook it up to a TV. Not the most elegant solution, I'm telling ya. I did some research on the Internet and came across this model. Of course, as most (all?) DVD players available at major retailers, this DVD comes preprogrammed as region-1 capable of playing only North American NTSC DVDs (or region ALL DVDs that are supposed to be played on all DVD players). I consider the whole DVD region business to be a nuisance as it prevents me from playing perfectly legal DVDs that I am not able to buy otherwise here in the States. To make the story short, reprogramming the unit to be region free is a breath. Beware -- the 'hack' is model specific, and can vary for units manifactured at different places (with different firmware). For my unit, bought at BB just recently (12/2005), it works like magic. Details of how to do that are widely available on the Internet (e.g. google CH-DVD 300 videohelp and follow the second link thereof).

In short, it's a fantastic unit doing what I needed for little money. If all you care for is a region-1 DVD player then the unit is probably a usual low budget / not bad image quality player. But if you need to play DVDs from other countries -- this player is a sure winner. Get one and see for yourself. Good luck!
354936
I didn't know that uk dvd cannot be played in the us.  So now I have a dvd I can't use...
2051172
Was unaware this was a regional DVD and does not play in standard U.S. DVD players. Had to buy a region free DVD player to watch it.
430532
Would not play on an American DVD player because I did not have it set to the correct region (whichever country's region it needed).
1238499
I was not aware that it was a DVD for European standards. It should be nice if the region type is at front before order..