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Cheap DVD player recommendations?
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Clinically Insane
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So my Toshiba DVD player is finally giving me a headache. The optical port on it keeps dying and I have to get up 2 or 3 times during a movie to replug it in. It also can't play some of the newer DVDs (I have no idea why) just says ERROR. Probably some new copy protection crap.
Anyway, I'd like to get a DVD player that's under $200, but is also multi-region. Dolby Digital and DTS are required as well as at least one optical for audio. 
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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We recently got a Philips DVP642 so my wife can play PAL DVDs in the bedroom. A rediculously easy to apply hack makes it completely region free. It was cheap ($45) and plays every format I've thrown at it so far. I highly recommend it.
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Sony makes good DVD players.
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I have an older Memorex DVD that's region-free and Macrovision free to boot, even though I never found an explanation for exactly why the model has this. I had other people buy the same model at the time that wanted both features. Have you ever tried playing a disc with a different region in the Memorex that you have? Or record a commercial DVD to VHS without Macrovision interference? I'm curious if newer Memorex DVD players still have the same bonus 'flukes'.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
I have an older Memorex DVD that's region-free and Macrovision free to boot, even though I never found an explanation for exactly why the model has this. I had other people buy the same model at the time that wanted both features. Have you ever tried playing a disc with a different region in the Memorex that you have? Or record a commercial DVD to VHS without Macrovision interference? I'm curious if newer Memorex DVD players still have the same bonus 'flukes'.
i don't have any other regioned dvd's to try it with.
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Originally posted by sugar_coated:
Sony makes good DVD players.
Proud of you.®
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The Pioneer DV-578 is pretty cheap ($100 or thereabouts) and plays pretty much any CD/DVD/DVD±R format, plus SACD and DVD-Audio to boot.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
We recently got a Philips DVP642 so my wife can play PAL DVDs in the bedroom. A rediculously easy to apply hack makes it completely region free. It was cheap ($45) and plays every format I've thrown at it so far. I highly recommend it.
WOW, thanks Crash. It has the same features as some of those $300 DVD players AND the region free "hack" (more like undocumented feature) is litterally a click of the remote.
Cheapest I've found it for is $63 on Amazon.
Thanks dude.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
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