Yahama DVD Region 4

mikal and sjh comment on my Yamaha DVD purchase, and suggest that all DVD players are sold region-free nowadays in Australia.

If that's so, why is there a region 4 logo on the outside of the box?

tech/IP | 24 Jun 2005 | #

Region Free

So I decided to buy a nice new Yamaha Amp and was convinced by the salesman to buy a matching Yamaha DVD player. Of course I didn't think about region-free at the time - everything was soooooo shiny :-)

I spent not a few hours googling for region-free codes, now that I have the unit back home. No luck. Grrr.

Then I found this (see the comment labeled "...but what about the picture?"). Hmmm, could my unit be region-free out of the box? (Despite saying it was region 4 only on the box itself)

Tried it last night and it was so. A name brand DVD player that is shipped being region free by default. Cool - my collection of Baby Einstein DVDs purchased in Chicago are still playable! :-)

tech/IP | 24 Jun 2005 | #