Dee Randall <deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote:
"Bill" <ws21@cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:ws21-887BD2.15021202102003@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...
In article <eh5nnvka0ik212llas730jl8eiia48pqai@4ax.com>,
Adam M <am_dragonNOSPAM<AT>NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
I know you said you didn't want a new dvd player however;
There is a new Toshiba DVD player that allows you to play other region
dvd's with a trick (it looks pretty simple). Something about a
warning popping up on the screen saying the disk is from a different
region, you press CLEAR on the remote and the warning goes away.
Region is one thing, format is another.
There are, however, DVD players that purport to play PAL format disks
into NTSC TV sets. I'm not sure if that's true or just badly written ad
copy. I have one, a Daewoo, but haven't found a PAL disk to test it on.
I bought the Daewoo (inexpensive at Costco) and returned it -- certainly
didn't live up to its specs.
I have used the Samsung, as well as the Samsung converting VHS machine,
and they do about as good a job as you will get from a home system. There
are pulldown artifacts, but they aren't awful ones. If your goal is to
watch all those porn movies you bought in Amsterdam, it's more than
serviceable. If you're looking to watch high grade transfers of Truffaut
films, you might be better off with a PAL or SECAM television.
--scott
