I gots me a new DVD player. A Polaroid PDV-0700K Portable DVD Player. I even found a way to make it region-free, using a built-in function on the player itself. I’m not going to tell you how, but I will say the number 1379 is important (I’m slightly surprised they didn’t use the number 1337; it means “elite” in hacker terminology). I might have a reason to go to the cottage more often now. My Dad finally received an iPod of his own (40GB version), so in much the same manner as the A&W Burger family, we are the Apple iPod family.
My brother and I gave each other board games. Risk: Lord of the Rings Trilogy for me, and HeroScape for him.
And as a late Christmas present, I bought myself a Kodak EasyShare DX7590 at BestBuy.ca for $570 CAD. Needless to say, I’m not going bargain hunting on Boxing Day today, as I think I found one yesterday.
More to come, time permitting.
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Hi,
What do you mean by “region-free”??
Thanks,
Most DVDs have a region associated them. This ties them to DVD players set with a matching region code, so only those DVDs will play on those players. That way the industry can have a North American DVD release, and a UK DVD release, and an Asian DVD release, etc… It’s basically a lock-in technique.
The problem is trying to get movies from another country that will *never* be released in your country (or released in a heavily edited or modified [read: butchered] state). Being able to set a player region-free, means being able to play nearly any DVD that you want. The problem after that is whether the player can handle both PAL and NTSC formats (which the Polaroid player does).
Does that help?
I tested your numbers “theory”, I have the same model.
Thanks!
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