Japanese PS3, you are a marvelous thing!
Wow, my family received such a generous gift today - a friend of our family gave us a PS3!!! Yeah, I don't play videogames (with the exception of DDR when certain people coerce me : P), so why I am I so excited about this? Because it's the Japanese version of the PS3, which means it can play Japanese (region 2) dvds!!!! I've been wanting a region-free or region 2 dvd player since forever so that I can buy and play the region 2 Japanese dvds that don't work on region 1 US dvd players, and now I finally can!! I just own a couple of region 2 jpop music dvds, so I tried them and they work - yay! The good thing is that the actual games on the PS3 are region-free, so my siblings can still buy US PS3 games and they'll work on it. The only downside is that US PS2 games don't work on the Japanese version, so we still have to use our PS2 for all of our old PS2 games. I don't have much money now to spend on Japanese dvds T__T, but when I do I'm going to buy a whole ton ^ ^ Oh yeah, Rei-chan *waves*, when Gedo Senki comes out on dvd in Japan, I'll get it so we can watch it. : D A lot of Japanese movies nowadays are being released w/english subtitles, so let's hope for that *crosses fingers*. Either that, or at least we'll get to stare at the pretty Ghibli-ness ^_-