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Dasein1978 · Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Chicago

I've been looking at this site for a while now, and I have two questions about life in Japan( if any of these have been previously answered I apologize).
Are mountain bikes easy to come by in Japan, are they cheap and readily available, and is there a used market as well?
Secondly, do DVD's from the United States work in Japanese DVD players?

easyasabc · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 179 Location: Japan

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Tecnically North Amercia is DVD region 1, and Japan is part of DVD region 2. Now, since DVD regions are inherently evil, all region DVD players can be bought. Also, many personal computers with DVD capacity can be switched over from one region to another (but only a limited number of times on some models.) Some DVDs themselves are also all-region, but they tend to be pirated copies.

I have an all region DVD player. I thought of ordering something from the US, but there was a warning message stating that new US DVDs might not work even in all region players.

That's all I know for certain. Hope it helps.

Celeste · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 6:20 am Post subject:

I have an LG brand multi regional DVD player and have had no problems playing DVDs from the US so far. I have also played a PAL DVD on it and it worked, but it came out in black and white.

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

I thought all DVD's were the same, it is the player that is divided into regions. Confused

I brought lots of DVD's back from Canada this summer and they work fine here in Japan.

David W · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 457 Location: Japan