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First region-free Blu-ray player?

Postby Mikkis » Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:48 am

Well not actually region free but a dual region player. Swedish company DVDirect claim they have made a dual region Samsung  BD-1400 player. It should play A and B regions Blu-rays and region 1 and 2 DVDs.

http://www.dvdirect.net/products_hardwa ... -RAYPlayer
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Postby MissMovie » Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:36 am

thats good news and it looks cute ;)
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Postby andersos » Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:56 am

Interesting. Would have been nice with 3 and 4 too for dvd.
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Postby Trilogy » Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:33 pm

€650. :(

Its def a start though. :)
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Postby Mrs.Robinson » Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:52 pm

I think regions won't be a problem in a little while... Just have to wait a bit longer, that's all  ;)  :D Also the prices will drop and all... You know how it goes... :D
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Postby bradavon » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:31 am

This looks suspect to me.

The BD-1400 is just a BD player like any other. It's certainly not dual region.
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Postby Mikkis » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:42 am

bradavon wrote:This looks suspect to me.

The BD-1400 is just a BD player like any other. It's certainly not dual region.


Of course it's not dual region out of the box. I read on a Swedish forum that they might have modified so that it has two firmwares. I guess we have to wait until someone in Sweden buys one and posts some information about it.
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Postby bradavon » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:34 pm

Thanks.

Hmm. that still sounds suspect. Surely if someone had managed to work out how to alter the firmware to make it dual BD regional coded it would've been all over the net?

That's some big news IMO.
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Re: First region-free Blu-ray player?

Postby enricokael2005 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:49 am

Mikkis wrote:Well not actually region free but a dual region player. Swedish company DVDirect claim they have made a dual region Samsung  BD-1400 player. It should play A and B regions Blu-rays and region 1 and 2 DVDs.

http://www.dvdirect.net/products_hardwa ... -RAYPlayer


It looks and sounds really cool. If I live in Sweden right now I would contact them imediately and schedule a meeting for them to show me this dual region capabilty. ;)
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Postby bradavon » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:37 pm

It's definitely something worth keeping an eye on.
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Postby andersos » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:32 pm

Mikkis wrote:
bradavon wrote:This looks suspect to me.

The BD-1400 is just a BD player like any other. It's certainly not dual region.


Of course it's not dual region out of the box. I read on a Swedish forum that they might have modified so that it has two firmwares. I guess we have to wait until someone in Sweden buys one and posts some information about it.


Which Swedish forum was it?
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Postby Mikkis » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:45 pm

andersos wrote:Which Swedish forum was it?


This one: http://www.dvdforum.nu/forum/index.asp? ... 5&forum=25
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Postby Ginger Mac » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:28 am

There is a god :shock:
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Postby bradavon » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:20 am

There's this too:

http://www.stegen.com/index.php/cPath/61

Source: AV Forums.
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Postby f_drew » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:21 pm

HKFlix are listing region-free players :
http://www.hkflix.com/hardware/compare. ... 62&pid=163

Anyone ordered one ?
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