DVDs are simple? Re:var is mysteriously clogged

[Evan Leibovitch]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>>If there's such a beast that also has the simple UI you described, I'd 
>>love to see it. Where in Toronto can such things be purchased? You 
>>certainly won't find them at Sears or FutureShop. The only ones I've 
>>seen were in Asia.
>>    
>>
>
>Well I got mine for $200 a couple of years ago at pacific mall.
>
Why doesn't that surprise me? ;-) I've found a lot of interesting things 
there.

>It has a european plug on it for power, but they included an adapter (it runs
>on 90-240V so that isn't a problem).
>
The cheapie region-free player that I brought back a few years ago was 
the same way; it was a European plug but variable voltage.

>I think the player I saw advertised was the RJ-700DVX, at least a search
>for that gives the right features and the right price range.  I can't
>remember the name of the store that advertised it.  Seems rjtech makes a
>number of these players.
>  
>
There will probably be a lot of "no-name" brands.

>Being region free, and usually not
>telling you what you can't do, the hongkong import players are rather
>nice though.
>  
>
I agree. Interestingly, the player I got was branded "Hong Kong 
Electronics", but made and purchased in Malaysia. :-)

Does anyone know whether there exists a region-free PC DVD drive? Most 
set a region in firmware, which you can only change a few times before 
it's permanent. While open source players ignore the region mismatch, 
Windows players don't; it would be nice to know if there are region-free 
PC drives just like there's are region-free standalone players.

- Evan

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