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MADem

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1. I buy really cheap DVD players, that are advertised as

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sun May 29, 2016, 12:52 AM

May 2016

"international" or "multi region" (yay Amazon) and they seem to play everything. I will admit, I haven't played a DVD lately, maybe they're putting more coding on the DVDs themselves? I also don't bother with BLU RAY.

I may not be getting the full "experience" but I just don't care that much!

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I have a new DVD player. My old one could not play some store [View all] applegrove May 2016 OP

I buy really cheap DVD players, that are advertised as MADem May 2016 #1

What do the unplayable dvd's have in common? nt JayhawkSD May 2016 #2

They were from two different TV series. Both just recently bought. applegrove May 2016 #6

Do you have any tv series that it will play? JayhawkSD May 2016 #7

Actually there are three dvds that don't play. Two of them I've watched before on other dvd players. applegrove May 2016 #8

Bring the DVDs with you and try playing them on something in the store. n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #9

Are they clean? -none May 2016 #3

A lot of DVDs have specific firmware requirements SwankyXomb May 2016 #5