Region free dvd players - need advice (1 Viewer)

[peter_i]

A friend of mine has just come here to visit from Brazil and he was interested in buying a region free dvd player. Can anyone recommend a good one available here in Canada, preferably Toronto? If not, than any recommendations would help.
thanks!

 

[Mark_Sk]

The Malata is generally recognized as the best as it does PAL/NTSC conversion. It is available in Canada from on-line stores (Next Bith Thing Electronics have them)

I get my Malata 520 this week hopefully as I have a lot of PAL discs from UK and Australia.

 

[Lew Crippen]

The Malata is generally recognized as the best as it does PAL/NTSC conversion.

Seems to me that Brazil is a SECAM country. Don't know if this could be a problem or not.

 

[Mark_Sk]

Ah yeah, forgot that Brazil is not normal PAL! Would have to check about conversion of discs from there.

Unless you have multi-standard TV and then you would just need any M/R DVD player of which there is a larger variety.

 

[JohnnyG]

Brazil is PAL-M. I'm pretty sure - but not 100% - that the Malata 520 will handle this.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

All SECAM territories have PAL DVD players

 

[David Susilo]

Apex 1100W (those WalMart specials for Cdn$129/US$80) can be made multiregion with anti-RCE. Make sure you buy the 1Mb version of the unit, burn the hack firmware (easily obtainable, but I won't post a link). It outputs PAL and NTSC but NO conversion.

 

[Nick_Scott]

It outputs PAL and NTSC but NO conversion.

If I pop in a PAL DVD with this player with my NTSC TV, what happens?

Do I get a watchable picture in pal mode vs ntsc mode?

Just curious. I might pick up some PAL DVDs just for the extras... so I'm not worried about PQ as much as usual.

 

[David Susilo]

I don't have a multisystem TV nor PAL disc, but there are two versions of this DVD player that I know of. One version you need to go to the menu and change the TV type (PAL/NTSC) and the version I own has auto select (PAL DVD will automatically output PAL, NTSC will automatically output NTSC without the need for switching)

 

[Mark_Sk]

If I pop in a PAL DVD with this player with my NTSC TV, what happens?

Probably an unwatchable image! They run with different number of lines (PAL has more) and frequency (NTSC=60Hz, PAL=50Hz) and color encoding! So in a nutshell it wont work!