Gumballl Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 (edited) Does anyone know whether Region 1 DVDs (those that are sold in the US/Canadian area) can be viewed in Thailand? Are there DVD players in Thailand that will play these DVDs? Another issue that raises my concern is that Region 1 DVDs are NTSC formatted, as opposed to PAL (which is the norm for video in Thailand). I know that it is possible to strip the Region encoding on a DVD, when creating a copy, but software to do this is illegal in the US, and possibly in Thailand as well. And the resulting copy does not have the same quality in the video (due to video compression). Edited April 11, 2005 by Gumballl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Pickup a Region 0(plays all regions) player in Thailand for cheap. Also noticed them on ebay for around 20quid without a viewable screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumballl Posted April 11, 2005 Author Share Posted April 11, 2005 Thanks britmaveric! Next time when I am in LOS, I will get one of these players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Don't worry about the NTSC/PAL side. All modern tv's will show both without a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefoxx Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Most (if not all) DVD players sold in Thailand are region-free, and can play DVDs from any region (including the pirated region, haha). Pretty much all current TVs can accept both NTSC and PAL signals (multi system), and all DVD players can play both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmi Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 No problem. I have lots of dvd's I bought in the U.S. They play just fine in both my Thai bought players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeti Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Most (if not all) DVD players sold in Thailand are region-free, and can play DVDs from any region All DVDs player in the world can play all regions. But you need to type a code for this before. The difference is that in Thailand, when they sell you a DVD player, most of the time, they have typed the code already, so you don't have anything to do. If you already have a DVD player, and you want it to become region free, just go on google, type the model number of your DVD player + region free, then you'll find plenty of pages explaining which code you need to type with your remote in order for your DVD player to become region free. Or go there, find your DVD player brand, and follow instructions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 if your player is not code free, just bring it to the next service center. they will change that for free within 1 hour. at least at sony and samsung... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Don't worry about the NTSC/PAL side.All modern tv's will show both without a thought. AND most modern DVD players bought outside the US will happily transcode NTSC to PAL and vice versa, so when you get home to The States you can play PAL disks on your NTSC telly. Clever eh?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Thanks britmaveric! Next time when I am in LOS, I will get one of these players. Just remember when you buy, ensure that the player has a switchable NTSC/PAL video output, an awful lot of US TV sets DON'T accept PAL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 (edited) But the U.S. is 110 voltage and Thailand 220 . Can you get dual voltage players ? oops I take that back. I misread the original post ! I see he wants to play region 1 DVD's in Thailand. Not take a DVD palyer back to the U.S. !! Edited April 14, 2005 by boogie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Most electronics these days are dual voltage!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_B Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Best thing to do is bring along a region 1 DVD to the shop and ask to view the disc on the player you are interested in. It took me 2 or 3 attempts in Homepro before I found a true "all zone" player. Do not believe the sales assistents as they always say "yes!" to whatever question you ask As usual it was the expensive player I had to get! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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