Any good multi-regional DVD players out there?

Question

I have a few DVDs from overseas and I want to buy a DVD player that can play them as well as my region 1 US DVDs. Are there any players that do that? (I've also heard that there's a disc you can buy that tricks a DVD player into playing another region's DVDs.....any info on that?)

Also, if I had a multi-regional DVD player, I heard that a new encoding format for Region 1 DVDs, RCE, won't be able to be played on a multi-regional player. Is this true? Do I need to worry about the new blue discs and HD discs that are coming out not being able to be played on such a player?

Answer 1

1. Philips has a DVD Player thats the size of a Pizza box which can play multi-regional DVDs.

2. It will take a lot while before RCE can actually be used in commercial place because if the current DVD players wont support them, do you think people will replace that for this simple reason..??

3. Blueray Disk and HD Discs are unplayable by default in any of the existing DVD players. Its like trying to play DVD on a VCD player!! Dont worry there will be multi-region players for Blueray soon...

Remember when Region coding came, they thought its fool proof. Well nothing is. Every lock is pickable, so the proverb goes

.:Fishie:.