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post #1 of 7
8/5/10 at 3:37pm
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Figure if I'm gonna jump into the HD pool, I'm jumpin' in deep.

I know some of you out there are sufficiently crazed as to own a region-free, code-free Blu-ray player. Testimonials'd be nice before I commit to one based on interweb reviews that for all I know might be shillery.

I don't even anticipate buying all that many foreign BDs (just like I didn't buy all that many foreign DVDs before my ol' region-free DVD player shit the bed). But if I'm gonna buy one for the man cave, might's well be one that can handle anything and everything.
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post #2 of 7
8/7/10 at 9:15am
Well if you have the money try this one. It's supposed to be the best quality player out there with the best DVD upconversion and it can be made region free like you wanted. If my PS3 exploded tommorrow this is the player I would buy. Kind of shitty that theres no streaming though, the one advantage of the PS3.
http://reviews.cnet.com/blu-ray-play....html?tag=also
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post #3 of 7
8/7/10 at 2:11pm
http://www.regioncodefreedvd.com/Pan...ti_region.html

Pretty much plays everything thrown at it, that said, the PS3 does more for the money.
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post #4 of 7
8/7/10 at 3:06pm
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Beginning to agree with the PS3 thing. We already have one upstairs, but I could get another for the mancave. The Netflix streaming thing is icing on the cake really.

If there's something I absolutely have to have on Blu-ray that doesn't play on there, I'll just kill myself. No biggie.
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post #5 of 7
8/7/10 at 6:42pm
I got a Momitsu a few months back when I found out there was no way yet to crack a PS3. It works well and was cheap, but I guess they aren't making this model anymore. I mostly got it just so I could have Suspiria on Blu-ray.
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post #6 of 7
8/7/10 at 7:47pm
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The hope would be that something like Suspiria eventually hits R1 Blu-ray. My experience when I had a region-free DVD player was that, more often than not, I'd buy a foreign DVD off eBay and then, within a year or so, it would hit R1 anyway. The appeal was that I'd get to see some stuff before it even opened in American theaters. The long view is that everything — yes, even Inception and Scott Pilgrim — eventually winds up as a used DVD at convenience stores for $7.99.

The obvious answer, of course, is a time machine. If you could go forward in time, pick up a used copy of Anchor Bay's 2012 Blu-ray release of Suspiria for $1.99 (since you'd be traveling to a time when Blu-rays are outmoded), and bring it back to 2010, you wouldn't need a region-free Blu-ray player.

In conclusion, my plan is now to abandon the hunt for a region-free Blu-ray player and start work on a time machine.

EDIT: Time machine completed. Nolan's The Man of Steel is awesome, you guys. Also, start being nice to Princess Kate — I mean, President Kate.
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post #7 of 7
8/7/10 at 7:52pm
The Weinstein's own Suspiria, thus I concluded it would never be released on Blu-ray. I also got Park Chan-Wook's Thirst, which Focus has no intent on releasing on Blu-ray. I also have many foreign DVDs and my region free DVD player broke, so I killed two birds. It's nice to be able to watch the extras on the region free but PAL Blu-ray's I own.

However, then I got High Tension, only to find out the next week that Lionsgate will be releasing it in Oct. Can't win them all.
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