About this “all regions” reprogramming being easy – I paid an extra 25 quid to remove the region blocking on my DVD when I bought it here in Sweden just over a year ago. I bought half a dozen DVDs in Canada and only 3 out of the 6 would play. On returning to the shop, they at first tried to convince me that the DVDs from Canada were pirated. Afterhalf an hour’s argument I convinced them to try to play them on one of their own deregionalised machines. They worked! Then they told me that they didn’t have the remote control required for reprogramming – nowhere in their chain of shops throughout all of Sweden! Finally (and this was after 3 hours in the shop) I told them to keep the DVD player until it worked properly and then phone me to tell me to collect it. It’s still there, a few days later, no phone call yet.
I hope this is an isolated incident, but it says little for the chain I bought it from, and the general knowledge of the people who “sell boxes” without understanding what they are selling.
Sorry, this came out longer than I expected, but I am a little peed off.
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