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Geek Culture / Has anyone bought a Multi-Region DVD Player from Play.com?

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jasuk70
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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 07:02
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I've just bought a Panasonic DVDS27 from them, it came with no extra instructions for the multi-region. When I plugged it in, it wont play any region dvd and it displays "No Initialize!" on the TV screen and F897 on the DVD Display.

I was wondering if they should have supplied any extra information on how to set up the regions.

Jas

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Scilynt
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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 08:21 Edited at: 28th Apr 2005 08:29
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I can't be sure, but it would seem Play.com have listed this item incorrectly. Rather than being Multi Region, it's a Multi Format player. You can get more info on the player from http://panasonic.co.uk/dvd-players/dvds27ebs/index.htm.

[EDIT] It's possible that Play recieve them in a multi-region state, as other online shops seem to do this, or offer ways for you to reprogram your current player. Not sure on the legality of this though.
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jasuk70
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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 16:04
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It had a multi-region sticker on it when I recieved it. And something is not right with it as it wont play region 1 or 2 DVD's. Hopefully play will be helpful when I phone them up to ask how to use it.

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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 17:06
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Play won't tell you how to do it, for legal reasons. It's up to you to find the instructions on the internet.

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jasuk70
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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 17:37
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Play have sold me a "MULTI-REGION" DVD Player, so I expect a "MULTI-REGION" player, instead I have a NO REGION player.

I'm not trying to convert a Region 2 player to multi-region which I can do for a £23 remote.

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=genbrw&page=title&r=ELEC&title=615384

Jas

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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 18:31
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Just heard back from Play and they have said that the people who have done the de-regioning, mucked it up on this one. So I have to send it back and they'll ship me one that works.

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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 20:30
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result!

When I got a multi-region player about 18 months ago, they couldn't legally do it for you, they could only supply a player capable of multiregion, and let you do the leg work yourself.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 28th Apr 2005 21:51
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Yeah, same with me. Basically the normal version was like £120, with the MultiRegion being £140. It was a good price at the time and, stupidly, got the £140 version, thinking it would all be there nice and good, not just a code you would have to enter (possibly every time you fired up the non-region 2 disk). Only extra thing I got with the player was a piece of paper saying how to make it multi-region. ie. type in a code at a certain point on the menu system.

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Posted: 29th Apr 2005 00:31
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dvd regions are stupid and silly. They remind me of Jimmeh



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