[LMB] AKICTOT:L Dvd players (was If civilization fell)

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Katrina Knight wrote:

> At 09:07 PM 2/6/2008 Thomas Vinson wrote:
> >Does anyone have experience with inexpensive* region-free dvd
> >players that also convert television formats (specifically PAL
> >to NTSC)?
>
> Mine is a Phillips DVP5982.

Thanks for posting this--I was considering buying one of these.

> Making it region-free required pushing some buttons on the
> remote control with the drawer open.  I'm not sure whether it
> qualifies as inexpensive though. I think it cost me about $60.
> It has thus far done fine with everything I've thrown at it,
> including PAL disks, except rewritable DVDs written with a
> packet writer.

What programmes would qualify as packet writers?

> It doesn't like those at all.  (Rewritable disks
> written with Nero are fine though.) It even plays disks that
> some other players won't even see at all.

Awesome, I'll definitely buy one next month then.

~malfoy :)

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