PHILIPS DVP3140 SILVER - ALL REGION CODEFREE MULTI SYSTEM DVD PLAYER WITH DivX. PLAYS DVD'S FROM ANY COUNTRY ON AN AMERICAN TV.
From Philips
Your dream player with flawless, true-to-life picture quality and the ability to play virtually any disc! The Philips DVD player delivers your movies and music entertainment experience.
Amazon Sales Rank: #19039 in Consumer Electronics Brand: Philips Dimensions: 1.50" h x 8.20" w x 14.20" l, 6.00 pounds
Multi-region is hidden! I bought two of these and was disappointed to find they were both Region 1 only...until I did this: 1. Make sure there is no disc in the player. 2. Turn power off and on again. 3. Open the tray. 4. On the remote, hit 9879 and then 0. This changes unit to Reion 0, meaning it'll play all regions. 5. Hit OK on the remote. A little too early to really review, although it seems to play everything well and has a slim, small footprint that's easy to slip atop other boxes. Remote, for once, has decent-size transport buttons that an old fart like me can see without glasses, a real plus. Easy to use, does what it is supposed to do!! I was struggling with my old Coby multi-region player which had the cumbersome requirement of having to take out the disk and punch in an on-screen code to get it to accept region 1, 2 or 3, then put the disk back in. If you got the code wrong, your TV picture got corrupted and kept scrolling. Also, subtitles kept dropping off the screen during dialog. Needless to say I was very unhappy with the old Coby. I bought this Philips to replace it, and I am happy and amazed that I don't have to enter a code for a different disk region. It plays the DVD without losing the subtitles, exactly the way it was intended. It is reasonably priced, light-weight and easy to use. After playing a region 2 DVD, I tried a region 1 DVD (with subtitles), and it made the transition with no problems at all!!! Highly recommended if you have disks from different countries in different formats. The only slight drawback is that the remote control does not have a button to open/eject the disk. But since you have to manually insert or remove the disk, it's not really important. You can shut the player off from the remote control; you just can't eject the disk. Works Great I purchased this DVD player so my son could watch DVD's my family ship over from the UK. I put in the code as advised by one of the other reviewers and it works great.
