Help me to figure this out. I need a Region Free DVD player and ability to backup to a VHS

[DPK]

I would like to get my girlfriend a region free (code free) DVD player for Christman. She is a foreign language teacher and she wants to be able to watch North American and German DVDs on the same player. Here is the catch. She would also like to be able to copy certain German DVDs to a VHS tape to show in class on the school's VCR.

Is this doable?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: DPK
I would like to get my girlfriend a region free (code free) DVD player for Christman. She is a foreign language teacher and she wants to be able to watch North American and German DVDs on the same player. Here is the catch. She would also like to be able to copy certain German DVDs to a VHS tape to show in class on the school's VCR.

Is this doable?

Is Christman related to Duckman or Batman?

 

[frankie38]

I would like to get my girlfriend a region free (code free) DVD player for Christman.


There are DVD players on the market that you can modify to become region free with minimal effort.
Goto www.videohelp.com and read

For example: Cyberhome 300/320 can be updated to be region free by a simple menu command. There are many more dvd players that can be modified. Many prefer Phillips. Do your own research and decide.

She is a foreign language teacher and she wants to be able to watch North American and German DVDs on the same player. Here is the catch. She would also like to be able to copy certain German DVDs to a VHS tape to show in class on the school's VCR.

This issue can be a little more difficult. Many dvds come with copy protection so you will not be able to hookup vcr to dvd and copy.

 

[TuxDave]

A quick trip to the local Chinatown should do the trick.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Copy protected DVDs are hard to get around without converting to Divx or some such thing first, then feeding out to a VCR (lots of quality loss from multiple conversions, maybe not a big issue?)

There's also 'potentially' a legal issue with doing this.

 

[Slick5150]

There's a number of DVD players that can also disable Macrovision (the copy protection scheme in DVDs). So yes, if you get a cheap DVD player that could be hacked to make it region free and disable macrovision, you could record.

Now, if she's using PAL DVDs, that poses another problem. So you'd also need a DVD player that can convert PAL->NTSC.

The Cyberhome 500 can do all 3 of these things I do believe. But check videohelp.com, they have a good list of DVD players, and what tricks they can do.

 

[radioouman]

Apex AD-600a
THe original. But good luck finding one!

 

[KamiXkaze]

I too am wondering I have alot of dvds from Japan, but can't play them on my plextor px712a. Are there any software program that can solve that?