digitalfreaknyc said:

Mike O said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

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I believe any of those will do. Definitely DVD2/DVD4

Maybe, and those are great deals, but I'm looking to be able to put any damn thing in the player and run it. So far my Phillips does that for DVD and VCD, but obviously not BR.

I doubt you're going to find ONE player that will play EVERYTHING, as well as being region-free.

Well, I think that the Oppo obviously will, but this looks like a tricky thing to navigate. I've found some reasonably priced ABC Region-Free Blu-Ray players on eBay, but whether they'll play VCDs, etc., I doubt and they probably wouldn't stream either, meaning I'd had to buy a Roku box or something, which means that when all is said and done, I'd have to spend a fair bit anyway. This is obviously a very complex thing, apparently after how easy making a DVD player go free was, they've made it so. There's evidently no easy answer. Sigh.