is fx96 for multi-region: is it region free?
799899
No, It will not allow you watch DVDs purchsed outside US! But there must be a way to change the region setting!
666309
It would be nice to have a definitive answer about whether or not this unit from Sony is multi-region ready or can be set up to be multi-region.Can somebody chime in with details please? thanks!
623940
HD DVD has no region codes. Blu-ray has 3, and Australia is in Region B (Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand). See Wikipedia. DVD regions remain the same with both formats and because both are trying to curry favor with studios, there are no region-free high def players, and only HDMI outputs carry upconverted signals. For a quality upconverting region-free player consider Oppo.
545132
It is "region free" with respect to geographics but its a wired system and not wireless. It's a great system as I have owned one for over a year now and I am very, very satisfied with its performance.
1663812
The Samsung BD-E5900 is not sold as a Region-Free device but you can make yours region free by following the instructions at this link: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/samsung-bd-e5900/11828
1781814
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.
1595278
No, it's all or nothing with the FX5. Get the FX6 if you need those controls.
792127
You have to set a region first (which I don't want to do) because the drive comes region-free (with firmware level RPC-2). As is, I have tried playing a Region 2 DVD from Japan using MPC HC, VLC and Power DVD 10 and only MPC was able to open the disk but the image was heavily pixelized and it eventually crashed.
578275
this Utility will make it a region free drive-&gt; http://www.cdrlabs.com/View-details/Misc/19-RPCTool-v1.0.1.html
930385
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.
822121
Thanks for that.Questions:1 Are there any known bugs resulting from switching to "region-free"?2 Can it be flipped back to NTSC?
877425
I believe it is a multi region player but as it broke after 3 uses and the warranty was only 90 days it is hard to answer for sure. I would not recommend buying this item.
1781816
Does anyone know if there is a patch for multi-region viewing on the BD570 yet? It's been a great machine, but we watch international DVDs and it's a pain to have two machines for this purpose only!Thanks for any help I can get on this.Tim
666308
no it is not multi region i ordered it from turkey and i couldnt break the region code for turkey. so i cant use it anymore..Just let uon know
1007907
Yes it will play all regions, but you have to select which region when you set it up. You are allowed to change regions up to five times only, then it will be fixed to the last selection.
208853
I haven't tried any other region dvds yet to try it out. But it does say it's region free in the description.
945428
You can double check but I'm pretty sure that you set the region in whatever software you're using.