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US Market Set-top DVD players that can play both PAL & NTSC DVD's — Page 2

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CLP and others here is the link to a VERY nice,Jay recommended Upconvert Multi-region DVD player:
OPPO DVD Player
hope this helps,i have it and love it,and like i said,when upgrades come out,all you do is download from website,burn image to CD,put in the player,and you have an upgraded player,just check out the link.
DJ

and here is the model #OPPO OPDV971H
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Yeah I know we have talked about that player before DJ.

I really want to buy it but I don't want to spend 200 bux on a DVD player at the beginning of the HD era.

Perhaps I'll just break down and pick up one anyway.

WHAT DO TO? WHAT TO DO?

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As an interesting note, in New Zealand it is illegal for retail to sell region-locked DVD players. In fact when region coding came out your average joe doe didn't have a clue as to what region number he was actually in. To confuse matters more NZ now has (nearly unrestricted - see http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/Page____1230.aspx ) parallel-importing of DVD's - making cheaper overseas releases legally available to purchase at any retail outlet. For this reason if it were not illegal to sell region-locked players consumers would have it even worse. France, I believe, also has parallel-importing.
Some were not blessed with brains.
<blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith

You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money,
make Lucas lose a lot of his money
and make him look bad to the entire world
and you could be well known and liked

None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm.
I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum.
we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
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Oh also, as a note to nitpick ... lcd and plasma displays have physically fixed pixels and unlike crt technically cannot change resolution. What this means is that for a PAL monitor you have 576 lines ... for an NTSC monitor you only have 480 lines .... SO, if you're going to play a PAL DVD on an NTSC lcd or plasma TV then the picture is resized from pal resolution to pseudo-ntsc resolution at 25fps. Likewise if you're going to play an NTSC DVD on a PAL lcd or plasma TV, then the picture is resized into pseudo pal resolution as it cannot be displayed in its native resolution.

These limitations do not apply to CRT.

Also all yanks be thankful you have the MPAA. We have a crummy sheep of an O.F.L.C. that plagiarizes classifications from Australia and Great Britain! At least yours makes up their own minds.
Some were not blessed with brains.
<blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith

You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money,
make Lucas lose a lot of his money
and make him look bad to the entire world
and you could be well known and liked

None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm.
I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum.
we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!