Playing Region 2 DVDs in Thailand

[Siam_Sam]

There is a strong possibility I may be moving to Thailand in the next few years. I have an extensive DVD collection that I don't want to part with so I'd want to take them with me to Thailand if I move there. I know that they wouldn't work if I tried to play them on a DVD player in Thailand because it is a different region in Thailand so my question is - if I took a DVD player purchased in the UK would I be able to change its plug in Thailand and use it to watch my DVDs or would that not work? 

[KittenKong]

Yes, you can use a UK DVD player here. You can also buy region-free DVD players here. For best picture quality look for something with an HDMI output and connect to a modern HDMI TV.

 

If you love your DVD collection you should give serious consideration to ripping it to a hard drive as DVDs can (or even will) fail over time.

[Siam_Sam]

3 hours ago, KittenKong said:

Yes, you can use a UK DVD player here. You can also buy region-free DVD players here. For best picture quality look for something with an HDMI output and connect to a modern HDMI TV.

 

If you love your DVD collection you should give serious consideration to ripping it to a hard drive as DVDs can (or even will) fail over time.

 

I was pretty sure that I could do this as I couldn't see any reason why a device using a plug converter wouldn't work, although I'm sure there are probably places in the world where this wouldn't work. I lived in Spain years ago and we took electrical devices purchased in the UK with us and they worked fine over there. 

 

You're correct when you say that DVDs will fail over time but that depends on lots of factors, mainly how well you take care of them. Hopefully they should last for the rest of my life. What collectors don't understand is that having copies saved on computer hard drives defeats the whole purpose of collecting and is considered sacrilege by serious collectors, especially when it concerns rare and expensive DVDs. 

[KittenKong]

24 minutes ago, Siam_Sam said:

You're correct when you say that DVDs will fail over time but that depends on lots of factors, mainly how well you take care of them. Hopefully they should last for the rest of my life. What collectors don't understand is that having copies saved on computer hard drives defeats the whole purpose of collecting and is considered sacrilege by serious collectors, especially when it concerns rare and expensive DVDs. 

 

I have no issue with owning collectable media and also keeping a digital copy. That way if the original media fails you can still view the content from the copy, and you still have the original media/box to look at. Seems like the best of both worlds to me.

[johng]

Thailand's high humidity  climate can be very harsh there is also the DVD eating fungus to ne wary of.

[Siam_Sam]

On 10/1/2017 at 10:51 AM, KittenKong said:

 

I have no issue with owning collectable media and also keeping a digital copy. That way if the original media fails you can still view the content from the copy, and you still have the original media/box to look at. Seems like the best of both worlds to me.

 

You have a point. 

 

On 10/3/2017 at 1:56 AM, johng said:

Thailand's high humidity  climate can be very harsh there is also the DVD eating fungus to ne wary of.

 

That's also a good point.