A few years ago, my brother bought me my first DVD player (having always reacted with horro when I said that I didn't have one) which was a Toshiba. At the time, he said that it was multi-region and so, on a trip to the US, I bought a cheap DVD to test it out. It played after a fashion, but was black and white and a bit fuzzy, so I didn't really bother looking into it much further.
Last Christmas, I puchased a cheap portable from Tesco, which had an integral DVD player (£69, from the world-renowned Hikona stable) and over the weekend idly tried putting my Region 1 Muppets From Space in it and it played perfectly.
Now I can't imagine that it was multi-regional, if that is still an extra option, so was wondering if they still bothered assigning regions to DVDs at all, or have they just given up ??
Last Christmas, I puchased a cheap portable from Tesco, which had an integral DVD player (£69, from the world-renowned Hikona stable) and over the weekend idly tried putting my Region 1 Muppets From Space in it and it played perfectly.
Now I can't imagine that it was multi-regional, if that is still an extra option, so was wondering if they still bothered assigning regions to DVDs at all, or have they just given up ??