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I figured this is probably the best place for me to ask this.

I'm currently planning on buying a multi-region player after I couldn't find a hack code for my current DVD player and i've been considering one for a while.

I'm currently looking at http://www.sony.co.uk/product/dvd-player/dvp-sr150/

It doesn't state there anything about it being multi-region from what I can see there however going off http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-DVP-SR150- ... B0054K878S and http://www.froogle.richersounds.com/pro ... vpsr150-mr have it marked as Multi-region.

I'm pondering over if anyone on this forum has this player and can say for sure if it plays both region 1 and 2.

That would also be the push for me to start importing, however since i'm clueless at times - i'm wondering if someone could give out a few online shops that you recommend and also how it works out delivery, price and conversion wise.

Thanks for the help!
 
Check AVForums before you buy. That has most of the hacks.

Also keep an eye on HotUKDeals. They'll post up cheap BD Players, and the comments will usually tell you if it's hackable or not ;)
 
You mean watch the film in widescreen? Unfortunately there's no way of altering the aspect ratio of something filmed in 4:3 without stretching the image, but I wouldn't recommend that. All upscaling does (in theory anyway) is improve the image quality of an SD source (i.e. DVD) on a HD television.
 
Shuuya said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP3120-05-DVD-Player/dp/B000NUUH32/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1314079835&sr=8-4

Get this one. It's cheap, works great and the hack is even in the customer reviews. I also have it.
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Thanks for the suggestion, though i've decided i'm going to go with the Toshiba one from my previous post. I might as well start making use of the HD on my tv.
 
My DVDs look a lot better since I've been using an upscaling player. Then again, before that I was connecting an old Pioneer player to a crappy HDTV via RGB, so I was bound to see some improvement from HDMI.

The quality of upscaling also depends on the TV, as some scale better than others. And flaws will be more evident on larger TVs than a modestly sized set, like mine.
 
Shuuya said:
Upscaling is ugly so I don't see why you'd want to do that in the first place.
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Because it might not be ugly? I got to give it a chance.
And there is likely to be a setting should the need arise for it to be turned off.
 
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