--- Forwarded Message from Pat Rafferty <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:54:04 -0500
>From: Pat Rafferty <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7723 Yamakawa, anyone?
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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I personally owned a Yamakawa 218 for about two years, and it was
completely region-free. I also believe it ignored Macrovision
copy-protection, but I never confirmed that. It was $60 and I bought it
at Coconuts. I recently upgraded to Philips DVP642 at Amazon, which is
also region-free and plays an even wider variety of video formats than
the Yamakawa did (and the Yamakawa played virtually everything I threw
at it).

In short, you can definitely find inexpensive region-free players, and
there's really no reason to shell out $200+ for one when there's free
software players for PCs and Macs, and cheap DVD players that work
great.

-pat.

Philips DVP642 @ Amazon.com [referral link]:
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=twistedview02
-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000204SWE

--- Message from Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> ---

> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:34:55 -0500
> From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Yamakawa, anyone?
> To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
> User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418
>
> Hello:
>
> Does anyone know anything about the  Yamakawa  multi-region DVD
> players?
> Their website (http://www.yamakawadirect.com)  boasts some impressive
> features for their players...and for under $100.
>
> I may a frugal Yankee at heart (as in New Englander, not the baseball
> team),
> but even I  wonder ...is this for real?
>
> Barbara
>
> Barbara Sawhill
> Director
> Cooper International Learning Center
> Oberlin College
> Oberlin, OH 44074



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