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captain kirk
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject: Playing Region 1 (USA and Canada) DVDs in Korea |
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I was looking at getting some SF DVD's and they are 'Region 1' (USA and Canada).
How can I play these in Korea. I don't have a DVD player yet. Would an Xbox or Playstation play these Region 1 dvds? And, should I chose to get a proper dvd player, what kind?
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magicwolfman
Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: Playing Region 1 (USA and Canada) DVDs in Korea |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
I was looking at getting some SF DVD's and they are 'Region 1' (USA and Canada).
How can I play these in Korea. I don't have a DVD player yet. Would an Xbox or Playstation play these Region 1 dvds? And, should I chose to get a proper dvd player, what kind?
Thanks. |
To have your Xbox or Playstation work you would have to get a region free disk installed in it. There are several dvd players around though that either have a region free hack or are region free to begin with. The one I can think of off the top of my head is "ethnic." It is a cheap one, I saw at walmart that is region free. It was 80,000won. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| If you've got a computer w/ a DVD player, download the VideoLAN player. It will play any region DVDs wiht no need to modify anything. |
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captain kirk
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| Cool, thanks. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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Someone on here posted that the Silady MPEG-4 DVD Player you can buy at Carrefor for 89,000 won is region-free. They were right. I bought one, and couldn't be happier. The only big complaint is that the tray is ultra flimsy. Otherwise, the picture is very very good (progressive) and the sound is really great, too.
Not sure if the cheaper Silady model is region-free or not, but I be it is. |
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Dalton
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: Re: Playing Region 1 (USA and Canada) DVDs in Korea |
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| magicwolfman wrote: |
| captain kirk wrote: |
I was looking at getting some SF DVD's and they are 'Region 1' (USA and Canada).
How can I play these in Korea. I don't have a DVD player yet. Would an Xbox or Playstation play these Region 1 dvds? And, should I chose to get a proper dvd player, what kind?
Thanks. |
To have your Xbox or Playstation work you would have to get a region free disk installed in it. There are several dvd players around though that either have a region free hack or are region free to begin with. The one I can think of off the top of my head is "ethnic." It is a cheap one, I saw at walmart that is region free. It was 80,000won. |
I have an Ethnic. It needs a lot of cleaning. The DVD players on my PCs work better. It plays Korean and NA DVDs. Ethnic has English labels on the machine and remote. By a lot I mean I often have to run a cleaning disk and clean the DVD tray between movies. Sometimes twice. Even for new discs right out of the box. |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Playing Region 1 (USA and Canada) DVDs in Korea |
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| Dalton wrote: |
| magicwolfman wrote: |
| captain kirk wrote: |
I was looking at getting some SF DVD's and they are 'Region 1' (USA and Canada).
How can I play these in Korea. I don't have a DVD player yet. Would an Xbox or Playstation play these Region 1 dvds? And, should I chose to get a proper dvd player, what kind?
Thanks. |
To have your Xbox or Playstation work you would have to get a region free disk installed in it. There are several dvd players around though that either have a region free hack or are region free to begin with. The one I can think of off the top of my head is "ethnic." It is a cheap one, I saw at walmart that is region free. It was 80,000won. |
I have the same one (Ethnic). I have had it for 1.5yrs. I have never had a problem with it, nor have I cleaned it. You must have gotten the lemon. 
I have an Ethnic. It needs a lot of cleaning. The DVD players on my PCs work better. It plays Korean and NA DVDs. Ethnic has English labels on the machine and remote. By a lot I mean I often have to run a cleaning disk and clean the DVD tray between movies. Sometimes twice. Even for new discs right out of the box. |
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