OT. Playing American Blue ray discs in UK do you do it?
 

On Wed, 15 May 2013 22:28:33 +0000 (UTC), Adrian
wrote:

It was delivered by a carrier there was nothing more to pay on arrival.

That's no guarantee of course. I have just received a statement from
FedEx complaining that I haven't paid £28.00 I am supposed to owe from
4th March. I suspect that this is duty due on a lens that came from
Hong Kong but this is the first I have heard from them about any
payment being due.

OT. Playing American Blue ray discs in UK do you do it?
 

"David" wrote in message
...
My Sony Blue ray will only do UK discs but will do multi region ordinary
DVDs.
I have seen some Blue ray movies I would like but not sold in the UK only
as DVDs.
From what I gather Sony have made it extremely difficult to multi region
players for Blue ray, not a bit like the mass market we have with DVD
players that are already MR or you can easily convert with a few presses
of remote control keys.
Have looked on Ebay, it seems to be only place claiming to sell MR Blue
ray players, but on reading several descriptions of products being offered
not too sure if they actually do.
Anyone got a Blue ray player which will will play US and UK discs if so
how did you buy it? Can I get one out of the box at reasonable price?
Regards
David

Sony are long standing pass masters at making you pay their RoB prices for
content in the UK.

They also repeatedly put malware on their discs: -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

caveat emptor...

The only Sony thing I have bought since 2000 is an AV amp, and even that
suppresses the component output when HDMI is passed through

OT. Playing American Blue ray discs in UK do you do it?
 

Adrian wrote:
: I bought an American Blu-ray player from amazon.com with shipping and taxes
: it cost less than the equivalent player in the UK.

: It was less than £40. It was delivered by a carrier there was nothing more
: to pay on arrival.

Many carrriers (DHL and FedEx for exmaple) will bill you up to a few months
later! Unlike the Post Office they don't require payment before delivery!

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On Wed, 15 May 2013 22:28:33 +0000 (UTC)
Adrian wrote:

"David" wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
....

"David" wrote:
My Sony Blue ray will only do UK discs but will do multi region
ordinary DVDs. I have seen some Blue ray movies I would like but
not sold in the UK only as DVDs. From what I gather Sony have
made it extremely difficult to multi region players for Blue ray,
not a bit like the mass market we have with DVD players that are
already MR or you can easily convert with a few presses of remote
control keys. Have looked on Ebay, it seems to be only place
claiming to sell MR Blue ray players, but on reading several
descriptions of products being offered not too sure if they
actually do. Anyone got a Blue ray player which will will play US
and UK discs if so how did you buy it? Can I get one out of the
box at reasonable price? Regards
David

I bought an American Blu-ray player from amazon.com with shipping
and taxes it cost less than the equivalent player in the UK.

It was less than £40. It was delivered by a carrier there was nothing
more to pay on arrival.


When we moved back to the UK from Michigan, at the end of our final
days there, we had a tube of posters and two large boxes of stuff to
ship home using the Post Office. We sent the posters first, to see what
was involved, and then the two boxes. One weighed just over 56 lbs, so
we had to trim its contents, or it would have had to go via FedEX, at
exorbitant cost.
When we got home, the poster tube was held back for import duty,
although it was the lowest value of the three shipments by far, whereas
the two boxes were delivered without question or duty imposition.
As the Yanks say: "Go figger".

--
Davey.

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On 15/05/2013 10:33, David wrote:

Anyone got a Blue ray player which will will play US and UK discs if so
how did you buy it? Can I get one out of the box at reasonable price?

Got a Panasonic from http://www.tps.uk.com/ a few months ago.

It's slightly awkward in that you have to reconfigure it by punching in
a code on the remote when you want to change between UK and US format
disks though. Not particularly cheap either; you'd need to be buying a
lot of US BDs to make it cost-effective.

--
David

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On Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:51 +0100, Lobster
wrote:


Anyone got a Blue ray player which will will play US and UK discs if so
how did you buy it? Can I get one out of the box at reasonable price?

Got a Panasonic from http://www.tps.uk.com/ a few months ago.

It's slightly awkward in that you have to reconfigure it by punching in
a code on the remote when you want to change between UK and US format
disks though. Not particularly cheap either; you'd need to be buying a
lot of US BDs to make it cost-effective.

The Toshiba player I got from Richer Sounds cost me about £60. It
plays any DVD automatically, but Blu-Ray needs to be switched
manually, like yours. I think there must be something different about
the way region coding is implemented.

I was warned never to connect it to the internet, as it might do an
automatic firmware update and its capabilities would then revert to
the manufacturer's default, removing the multiregion switching.

If the makers of Blu-Ray equipment ever succeed in making it
impossible to switch between systems, at £60 a go, it will be
reasonably cost-effective to buy two players, one for each system.

Rod.

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On 20/05/2013 22:57, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:51 +0100, Lobster
wrote:


Anyone got a Blue ray player which will will play US and UK discs if so
how did you buy it? Can I get one out of the box at reasonable price?

Got a Panasonic from http://www.tps.uk.com/ a few months ago.

It's slightly awkward in that you have to reconfigure it by punching in
a code on the remote when you want to change between UK and US format
disks though. Not particularly cheap either; you'd need to be buying a
lot of US BDs to make it cost-effective.

The Toshiba player I got from Richer Sounds cost me about £60. It
plays any DVD automatically, but Blu-Ray needs to be switched
manually, like yours. I think there must be something different about
the way region coding is implemented.

I was warned never to connect it to the internet, as it might do an
automatic firmware update and its capabilities would then revert to
the manufacturer's default, removing the multiregion switching.

+1; although I was just warned to switch off the auto firmware update.
In fact I had to upgrade the firmware myself later for some reason, in
order to access internet and network services on the player; for this
TPS sold me an updated version of the firmware on DVD for a tenner
(apparently it has to be personalised for my player); at least it means
I can flash my own firmware in future should it ever get accidentally
swapped to the manufacturer's version.

--
David

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On Tue, 21 May 2013 07:57:31 +0100, Lobster
wrote:

I was warned never to connect it to the internet, as it might do an
automatic firmware update and its capabilities would then revert to
the manufacturer's default, removing the multiregion switching.

+1; although I was just warned to switch off the auto firmware update.
In fact I had to upgrade the firmware myself later for some reason, in
order to access internet and network services on the player; for this
TPS sold me an updated version of the firmware on DVD for a tenner
(apparently it has to be personalised for my player); at least it means
I can flash my own firmware in future should it ever get accidentally
swapped to the manufacturer's version.

Luckily I don't need internet services on my Blu-Ray player as I
already have that elsewhere, so it doesn't need to be connected to
anything other than the TV set and the hi-fi to do its job. It seems a
lot of devices are now equipped for internet access whether they need
it or not, even TV sets. I just use my TV set for displaying pictures
and the hi-fi system for the sound, as I have for many years. I have a
computer for network and internet services, and I just use the disk
player for playing disks. Maybe that's a bit old fashioned, but I can
do everything I need to do and I know which box does what.

Rod.

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On May 21, 8:28*am, Roderick Stewart
wrote:
I just use my TV set for displaying pictures

I couldn't imagine *not* having iPlayer on our TV now. Fortunately we
have three attached devices - a BluRay player, a Humax PVR and a Wii U
games console - which are internet-connected and can all do iPlayer.

Richard.

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It is a real shame that equipment that has the iplayer is limited to the
BBC.
Regards
David