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We bought about a dozen DVDs and a DVD player while we were traveling. It gave us some down time while we traveled and as intended will help reinforce the first language of our three adoptive children.
The DVDs are great because the kids could watch them in Polish and we could put on the English subtitles. This actually helped me connect many words to the spelling so I knew what words/phrases meant.
We've been home almost nine months. We have the Region 2 DVD player connected to one of our 4 TVs. It is the oldest TV we own, and is the only one which will display the DVDs. Though, unfortunately the movies are displayed in black and white. We have a voltage converter from Radio Shack, but I'm wondering if anyone has any other ideas about playing Region 2 DVDs on Region 1/American equipment.
What about using a computer's DVD-ROM drive? I heard buying the cheapest Region 1 DVD player might work?
I'd like to keep using the DVDs so that the kids can keep up with their Polish at home. Any ideas?
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There are websites you can search for that either give you or sell the codes to change your settings. I've tried both the freebies and the not freebies and neither worked for us.
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We have a cheap (<$40) DVD player that is "code free". For a previous DVD player, we had to enter a code, which is something like "fast forward, play, rewind 2x,..." I live in Germany, so I knew what to ask for on our base. You could try asking at local stores, but they may be clueless. As lastpaige suggested...type the name of your DVD player into a search engine along with "code free" or "hack". If there is a way to make it code free, you should find it.
You can change the region on your computer, but only a set number of times, and then you are stuck. I think we can change our five times. I don't know anything else about that - maybe there is a work-around for that, too???
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thanks for the electronics suggestions. I looked on the web a little bit, but always when we were trying to get the thing hooked up and didn't have much time to browse.
Thanks for the suggestions. Anymore would be welcome.
Beth
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I have a cheap (<$60) DVD player my mother bought for me in NYC in a Polish community which plays Polish and American DVDs just fine. I don't remember the brand and it is in my son's room right now, so if you are desperate PM me and I'll find it for you during daytime. I'm pretty sure it was something Japanese-sounding, though not a "big" company.
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