From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 30 18:26:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [216.227.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE8537B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:26:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by jasper.nighttide.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB12Q8300571; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:26:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:26:08 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Terry Lambert , , Subject: Re: DVD Players, and Not in a PC In-Reply-To: <20001130172843.A28757@peorth.iteration.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:01:44PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: > | Be careful. There are two flavors of "all-region". The first > | is "region free"; this does not work with some region encoded > | DVDs. The second is "variable region"; this works with all DVDs, > | but the region switching may not be automatic; sometimes it > | requires a dipswitch change, or a "hidden" menu in the onscreen > | remote options. > > I actually bought a set from them, they are of the former type. :) It's nice having one of the region free players but one problem I've been having is finding a decent multi-system television (ie pal/ntsc/secam). Anyone know of any domestically available sets? I've noticed a few of the places selling the all region players have sets but they tend to be on the pricey side and besides, I would really like to see the picture before purchasing one. ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message