On 11/05/2012 13:35, Man at B&Q wrote:
On May 11, 9:36 am, wrote:
On 11/05/2012 00:20, S Viemeister wrote: On 5/10/2012 6:50 PM, Lobster wrote:

It's been my experience that the less cash you pay for a DVD player, the
more likely it is to be multi-region or at least hackable (eg my kids'
£20 Aldi job versus my high-end Sony model)
That appeals to my penny-pinching preferences.
You lot seem to have got in a bit of a tizzy.

The OP asked if the link was a region free player. it says it is and the
reviewers say it is.

Amazon are only guaranteeing that it will play region 2.

As for the bigger question of can all region free players play all
region DVDs, the answer is not so clear cut.

Region 2 is PAL and NTSC. ALL region 2 players MUST play NTSC. Japan is
region 2 and NTSC, but as has been discussed, some players do real
NTSC, some do pseudo PAL, some do converted to real PAL.

Region 1 is exclusively NTSC. There are some region 1 machines that can
be made region free but cannot handle PAL, they cannot read it or if
Where do you think they "read" "PAL" from?

You need to read up about the difference between colour encoding and
frame size/frame rate.

MBQ
Some NTSC DVD players will not do anything with a PAL file. therefore in
laymans terms they cannot 'read it'

Who would think anything other was meant. ???