My parents brought back a bunch of Croatian comedy DVDs from Croatia during their last trip only to find out that none of our DVD players play these discs (non-computer DVD player).


What do I need to look for? I know there are different formats but I dont know the names of them. It's so dumb how DVDs aren't universal... SO STUPID.

I want to buy one for my parents and was hoping that someone could push me into the right direction... I know we have fellow foreigners onboard, I know I'm not the only person who immigrated here. We need our homeland entertainment dammit and the DVD ****'s aren't allowing me to watch what I need!

Help a brother out!

 

Go to an Asian video store and buy an "Open Region" DVD player. DVD's have region codes that prevent them from being played outside of their geographical region; it was Sony's idea to maximize profit on the format. Are you sure you didn't know this already?

 

i had a Philips DVP642 that played all regions and Divx files.

 

Meh, I knew there were formats and such I just didnt know the details of what they were called and such... I'm not really into DVDs because I never use them.

I just want to buy one that works and will play multiple formats reliably. Is the asian store really the best idea? Isnt that stuff junk?

 

PS: Ive been meaning to post this for weeks and could have sworn I did start a thread like a week ago and totally forgot about it until now and I went back to check if I did actually create and publish a new thread or if I just imagined it in a dream or something... Sure enough, it doesn't exist and it was a dream... Weird eh? lol


My dreams are very VIVID. Not in the **** kind of vivid, but I mean they are VERY realistic and I remember them very well.

 

Rip it to your computer

 

+1 have the same one.

Bought it at Target a few years ago. They probably don't sell it anymore at Target but u can find it on Amazon.

It's locked onto Region 1 but there's a little trick to make it play all region. Just look up online for the trick. It only requires a push of a button for like several seconds and that's it.

 

It's like shopping at Best Buy or any other retailer: there are different models available for different prices. If you want to be more sure about quality without doing any research, try buying one of the open region models from a Japanese video store, or one of the more professionally-run Chinese video stores (a quality, reliable player should run you less than $100).

 

$100 is actually a lot for a decent DVD player these days, even a region free one IMO.

I'd actually say look for a used Oppo (970, 971, or older?) since many of the older models had a simple code unlock to run region free and they are also very decent players.

 

I bought a Mintek from Best Buy. $24. Plays VCD/SVCD/DVD/avi, and is region-free.
This was also several years ago though.

 

You can mod a ps2 to be region free, that's what i used for a while.

 

Usually the really cheap ones play multiple formats, just not for long..

 

if you have a DVD/CD Rom you can just play it right through your computer.

C'mon, its 2010. we should all have our computer hooked up to our TV by now

 

You might as well admit this is just for some freaky Croat pr0n you "got from a friend"

 

I concur