Region Free DVD Players.

Sony players sold in the US are hardwired for NTSC Region 1 only.

My Samsung HD841 Universal player is Region Free.

I wholeheartedly recommend this machine to anyone, especially audiophiles, looking for a Region Free player. It is a good looking, well built, flexible component that will play WHATEVER CD, MP3, SACD, DVD-V, or DVD-A disc you put it in. I paid $99 for mine at BestBuy. My wife and daughter use it for their Chinese DVDs, and comment on how much better the picture and sound are than our last player.

As a bonus, check the threads to see how $400 of mods allowed it to go step for step with an $11K Linn Unidisk. This is an absolute no brainer of a DVD player.

Rex:
Thanks a lot! I would hate to kill my Modwright or DLP.

Trejla:
What thread? Can you give me a lead? I couldn't find it. I was searching HD841 and HD 841.

Trelja, does the Samsung do PAL>NTSC conversion? And does it have an internal scaler?

I just purchased an inexpensive Toshiba player from a store in IL. Last night we played some PAL DVD's on an NTSC TV and the picture looked decent. The disc loading mechanism looks cheap but the player was cheap ($70).

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