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German movies on DVD

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 12:17 pm
by Helmut
Servus,
OK, I know that VHS tapes, for all practicl purposes will not play in a US spec VCR player. My question is: will Geman DVDs play in American spec players. I have found many good movies on the German Amazon but I don't want to end up spending money and not be able to watch them. :(

Thanks in advance for any information/ :D

Regards,

Helmut

Re: German movies on DVD

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 4:22 am
by Rolf Steiner
Hi Helmut

In my experience there is a 'crack' for most models of players to enable them to handle multi region - usually taken care of by the store I bought it from, in my case, but try googling the model and there's usually a code you punch in that fixes it.

Re: German movies on DVD

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:01 am
by Helmut
Rolf,
Thank you very much. I'll give it a try.

Have you tried it yet?

thanks again,

regards

Helmut

Re: German movies on DVD

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:59 am
by Rolf Steiner
I'm on my second player (got about 6 years out of my first one), both of them cracked for all regions, though I think in both cases it was the nice man in the shop who take care of that with a sly wink... I think some discs are region free in any case.