My experience is that WMV just isn't all that common any more. My dad is retired but he's able to play files I send him in Divx format without any issues. To be blunt, if you'll give your father files in Divx format instead of WMV you'll have fewer problems. Plus media players will work with more recent versions of WMV and they support high definition resolutions. For example the Western Digital models can play from USB flash drives and you could train anyone how to copy a file to a USB drive, remove it correctly from a PC and then plug it into a Western Digital player. Using a media player is in no way harder than trying to play stuff back on a DVD player. And high def resolutions (anything above 720x576) won't work either. Pay special attention to the fact that only older versions of WMV will work. I had to do quite a bit of research and after realizing the expense involved (and annoying everyone here, at videohelp, AVS Forum, and elsewhere, and generally making a n00b ass of myself), I simply looked for ones with specific specifications, in this case region-free and wifi capable, and hedged my bets.Confused2011 - Please pay very close attention to Ai Haibara's excellent response which has warned you of specific requirements for your files to playback. There are a number of sites out which mod and sell region-free Blu-ray players like this one, and of course many folks on eBay. Hooked it up to my Westinghouse UW39T7HW and voila, I'm in the digital age, albeit just barely. The Bul-ray region is set by hand on the remote, that's evidently where the actual hardware modding came in. I sternly e-mailed them, and they gave me software to burn to a disc which re-enabled the region-free quality.
Recently, after a software update, it stopped playing DVDs region-free. Hardly cutting edge, but it was $200 with the modding and it plays all regions. Still play stuff from every region, and in analog stereo !Īs for Blu, I too bought from a company in Chicago on eBay interestingly enough, and it was a modded Sony BPD S3100. Now it's downstairs hooked up to an old cassette stereo and CRT TV with RCA jacks. Crude, but effective, as they say, and it handled PAL conversion on my R2 discs. Wasn't much, but it had an HDMI out and I used on my HDTV before I got the Blu-ray player. My old one died on me and I briefly went to videohelp and found a hack and just bought a cheap-o off the shelf one at work with my discount for like $40 and hacked it with the remote. If you're looking for a region-free DVD player, it's a much less complicated issue. Got a refund.Like Josh said, nothing is region-free out of the box. I bought a modified Sony from some company located in Chicago (globalelectronics maybe?), and it didn't work. Completely off topic, but which player do you use? I'm looking for a region free blu ray player straight out of the box.
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