DVD Player Recommendations?

[August West]

Hi all;

Can anyone recommend a DVD player that plays NTSC and PAL format DVD's? Hopefully this will be a player that has digital audio outs, component video outs, and has a reasonable cost. It would be amazingly cool if it would be HDTV ready (for the future), but thats only a bonus.

Is seems that the DVD players I find that are PAL/NTSC compatible cost a huge amount more, and that just does not seem right to me. Surely everyone in Europe is not paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars just to get a DVD player......

[AAR.oner]

almost all of the cheap no-name DVD players at WalMart or KMart will play both NTSC & PAL...a few of the names off the top of my head are Apex, Durabrand, CyberHome, etc...

i recently picked up a Durabrand for $29, and it'll play anything, including data discs...has both component and digi outs i'm pretty sure

[fanofthemule]

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVP642-DivX-Certified-Progressive-Scan-Player/dp/B000204SWE

A simple hack will make this player region free also. Great player, great price.

[pokermad]

I own this player and it plays everything I give it except QPAL(?). Worth every penny.

[jrbungeetroll]

check out
www.videohelp.com
on left side click "DVD players"

will tell you what players play what
and you can get hacks

[Unidecker]

best one i ever bought and own now is the samsung hd960 plays anything u put in pal/ntsc/divx/xvid/avi/mpg/jpg/bmp/etc......... i love it and has HDMI out

unreal it even upconverts to 1080P MMMM HMMMMM


uni

[August West]

Thanks for all the info and replies.

After looking at several different players, I thought "What the hell?" and burned 10-16-81 Milk Weg (PAL) to disk and popped it in the old trusty Apex AD-5131 and it played perfectly!!! This player is definitely a keeper in my book

[Black Dog]

I've had no problems with this one....


JD-VD135
COMPACT DESIGN PROGRESSIVE SCAN 2.0 CHANNEL DVD PLAYER

• Progressive Scan Output
• Compatible with DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/Kodak PICTURE CD
• Supports 16:9 & 4:3 TV Picture Mode
• Compatible with NTSC/PAL TV Systems
• Supports GUI & OSD (Graphics User Interface & On Screen Display)
• Scan & Slow Playback
• Pause/Step-by-Step/Zoomed Playback
• Up to x 32 Fast Forward and Backward
• Up to x 4 Zoom
• Repeat & Repeat A-B Playback
• Support Multi-Language & Multi-Angle
• Component Video Output (Y/Pr/Pb)
• Composite Video/S-Video Output
• Coaxial Digital Audio Output
• 2 CH Analog Audio Output (R/L)
• Power Supply: 120V AC 60Hz
• Power Consumption: ¡Â10W

• Dimension: (WHD)10.24 x 1.97 x 10.24 (INCH)
• Weight: 4.4 lbs.
• UPC: 639247 35135 6