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

[Mark Allums]

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. 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. 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.


Do you know how to convert a Philips DVD recorder?  I have model 
DVDR3400/17.  I have already updated the firmware on it from the Philips 
website, to the most recent version. Which I recommend, if you have one 
and are able to follow instruction.  It really improves the player from 
being a bad choice (Wal*Mart on sale) to a decent appliance.  But I 
digress.  If there is a procedure that would let me play a Japanese 
Region 2 disc on it, I would be very happy.  I could change the region 
on one of my DVD-ROM drives, but there is a limit on how many times you 
can do that, and I don't want to watch video on my computer, even if it 
does have the only HD display in the house.

A link to a web site would be sufficient.  Or, we can take this offlist, 
if other listies object to the OT nature of the subject.

--MArk Allums