Multi region blu-ray player

[Sniff]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by msmiff
Most Fox blueray titles are region specific. Many Disney ditto (just for starters).
The PS3 blueray drive isn't "just a standard blue-ray drive". It's specifically built by Sony for the PS3 (presumeably as cheaply as possible) & it's not a particularly wonderful mechanism.
I'm repairing on average 8 per week - mostly laser faults....
There's a whole catalogue of disks (especially older releases re-mastered) only on region A.
It's certainly cheaper to import disks directly from the US than buy in the UK / cheaper still if you buy 'em there - may be different in Germany ??
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Then I guess I've been lucky with mine. It sounds like you repair PS3s for a living so you've obviously seen more than I have! But I still question the uniqueness of the blu-ray drive in the PS3...it might well be built down to a price, but Linux sees it as just another drive.

I pay around 15 Euros for blu-rays in my local dealer, and that does(from what I've seen) compare quite favourably with US prices.

Regarding region coding...yes some studios always code, some never do, but you'll be surprised how many are not coded. I guess it depends on what films you want to watch

As I said, I looked very carefully into getting a region A or multiregion player, and for me it just didn't stack up.

[florida4sun]

Anyone know of a reasonably priced unit that will record from SVHS input. The only one I can find at the moment is £900 which is too steep. I really need to future proof a bunch of svhs tapes and this seems to be the way to go.

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by florida4sun
Anyone know of a reasonably priced unit that will record from SVHS input. The only one I can find at the moment is £900 which is too steep. I really need to future proof a bunch of svhs tapes and this seems to be the way to go.
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Martin, are you looking for a DVD recorder or blu-ray? What outputs do you have on your SVHS player?

[florida4sun]

Its a SVHS camera and I want to archive the tapes, may as well buy a blueray recorder but prices with svhs inputs are too high, unless anyone knows differently

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Sniff
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by florida4sun
Anyone know of a reasonably priced unit that will record from SVHS input. The only one I can find at the moment is £900 which is too steep. I really need to future proof a bunch of svhs tapes and this seems to be the way to go.
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Martin, are you looking for a DVD recorder or blu-ray? What outputs do you have on your SVHS player?
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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by florida4sun
Its a SVHS camera and I want to archive the tapes, may as well buy a blueray recorder but prices with svhs inputs are too high, unless anyone knows differently

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Sniff
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by florida4sun
Anyone know of a reasonably priced unit that will record from SVHS input. The only one I can find at the moment is £900 which is too steep. I really need to future proof a bunch of svhs tapes and this seems to be the way to go.
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Martin, are you looking for a DVD recorder or blu-ray? What outputs do you have on your SVHS player?
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Yes I think the Panasonic is the only one available at the moment, but as you said it's around 900 quid [msnoo]

[msmiff]

If you want to go real cheapie, try "Easycap". It'a a USB device which can transfer SVHS input to your PC. Compress the files with Xvid (or similar) & write 'em to DVD..
If you look around, it's about £4.99.
Have used it to transfer loads of VHS tapes to DVDs.
A decent internal video capture card would set you back about £50ish.
If you put a gig of HDD & a blueray writer in you PC, you'd not even need compression. At present prices, blueray burner about £160, gig HDD about £70...