Region Free? Anyone else run into this issue?
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HD DVD players are region free only if you use HD DVD disks, since the HD DVD standart does not have region limitations. If you play standard DVD disks, it's still locked for one region.
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The 3ds sounds like it's region locked. You can either order your games from the us, via amazon or you could buy a 3ds in Australia. Those are the only ways I know of to work out this issue.
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Games are region free but you need to update the vita itself before you get the games running. Do so in the settings somehow.
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Dear dsrussellI live in Brazil, and we are fortunatly in Region Code A, then I wont have problems if I buy it.I saw in your comment that this player plays ALL regions of convencional DVDs, is it btrue??I'm buyng this player next week when a friend of mine wil be in the USA.Please, can you confirm this info to me?thank you very much for your attention.Elton Oliveira
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Yeah Vita is region free. I played it on my US Vita. It's just the DLC you'll have to worry about. If you want that your Vita need to be using a japanese account to use the DLC.
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It is a region 1(North America)....HDDVD players are region free(To bad this format lost)
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I boought the 570 too, but please bear in mind, there is no region unlock for this machine yet. I bought this when it first came out, exxpecting a quick patch, but so far no-one seems to have one yet. That means Blu-rays and DVDs will be region locked. It's an excellent machine, but if you don't need the web functionalities, there are other players out there that have excellent upscaling and patches for multi-region.
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Yes, all PS3 games are region free. The same goes for PSP, PSVita, PS4, Xbox One and all Nintendo DS except 3DS and 2DS. It's a helpful thing to know.
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I'm not really sure because I only live in the one region of the United States. I do however have a couple discs from the UK and it seems to play them without a problem.
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the one I ordered was USA. worked fine on my ps3, my nephews ps3 and when my cousin moved out. he told me he played it on a friends ps3 and it played fine. I have never really bothered with regions when I ordered thru amazon. Doesn't UK Amazon ship out UK Verizon games? that's why I don't really trip on version. Since I am on USA amazon they have always shipped out USA version games. I found so far the only exception is when the seller themselves have a different region game that's usually an import. but they say it on the info.
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I'm very very disappointed. My Oppo BDP-80 just arrived, and I can't get it to play any Region 2 DVDs from Europe. I must have misunderstood the "universal" aspect of this player because the sole reason I bought it was to play both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs. I am not technically-savvy enough to open and start picking at the circuitboards to make it region free. If someone has a very easy fix to make it region-free, please let me know. Otherwise I"m sending this item back to Amazon.
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I just put a dvd in and it plays it. I dont have to do anything to it. So no I do not have to chose a region code. It does it all by itself, put in the dvd and push play. I love it so far. I have dvds from America and from other Countries.
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PS3's are region free, so yes. No worries there. My copy plays perfectly on my PS3, and it is a US console.
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Jason: Mine plays NTSC and PAL region free discs fine but anything that is region locked (2, 3, etc) wont play. I played some discs that were marked region 2 pal and they would not play but others also marked region 2 pal played fine as well as region 3. I suspect that, at least in my case, that some of my dvd's might be labeled region 2 or 3 but are in fact all region or region 0. Have you checked anything that you know for sure is region locked? Its very interesting that you are having no issues at all. At least I know that it is NTSC PAL friendly. Otherwise, this player rocks
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1. I found PAL listing in the set up menu so you change this using your remote control.2. I did not even need to make it region free to make it work for DVD's from other countries. Even if you need this the code is already posted by a reviewer on Amazon
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No It is not region free at least if purchased in USA. Inserting different region DVD will Say "CAN NOT PLAY" on TV and DVD Screen. If you want to make it region free, you must purchase a firmware upgrade that does that. Search Google for player model and region free firmware. The group of people that offer that don't do that for free though. I accidently stumbled on their site discussion researching this player before purchasing it. It takes lots of testing to develop firmware, so I guess if you are interested you can pay for that. But keep in mind, "Region Free" will output PAL TV signal (different frame rate and frame size) to your TV. It (TV) also must be able to handle that, not just DVD player. Player will not convert PAL DVDs for example into NTSC signal. You can also find this player with region free firmware on ebay.
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Bishop,Have you check dvdhelp.com under "dvd hacks" for the region free hack of this player? I did that for my Philips dvp5982 which require using your remote control to bring out the hidden menu of the player to reset the region code to "0". After that you can play all dvds without the region restriction.