doing what I should have done with the DVD, i.e. asking for HELP!

[kattahj]

My mom offered to take the DVD player, and as I told her, I can't guarantee that it'll work with their old TV, but mine is worse than theirs and the store lady didn't say it would be a problem, so it might. OTOH, my trust in that store lady is not high right now. Does anyone know if there's a problem mixing new DVD/Blu-Ray players with old TVs? (

Comments

[eponine119]

I would probably get a cheap multiregion at a price point where if it stops working in a year it won't be too bad. I hate the disposability of things but sometimes that's the best option. Otherwise I would probably research the region hacks prior to buying but even then it's not the best guarantee.

[kattahj]

I managed to find a cheap model with an easy hack that's available from another store in the same mall, so I'm going to give that a try (and I hope it works out, this time!)

[starbright73]

I have Lidl's Silvercrest and they are dirt cheap, region free and never caused any problems for me. I did have a high ebnd costly one at first and that one broke down in a year. My Silvercrest is like 4 years old by now and running just fine. The cost is 50€ if yo want all the goodies like HDMI, additional ports and WLan. Regionfree from the start and also plays Xvids, Quicktime and every vid format I've tried so far.

[kattahj]

Thanks for the tip, but Silvercrests seem hard to get by, so now I'm going to try a Philips with an easy hack. I think...