First of all, let me say that this unit is very well worth the money. As "just a DVD player" I give it FIVE over FIVE points (or ten/ten if you wish).

The unit comes as Region Free DVD Player. Professionally modified to play any region out of the box. This feature makes it most versatile player as this player can play any region 1,2,3,4,5,6 PAL or NTSC on regular American TV just out of the Box It just works.

Good things:

it can play NTSC and PAL DVD, VCD. and when it plays PAL VCD, it will fit the image so that the image is not out of proper aspect ratio. You can even easily choose the left or right audio channel which is typical of VCD. Further, this DVD player can play DivX, MPG, mp3, jpg. It can play DivX with subtitles. When fast forwarding, it can go up to 30x and 100x (seems like not 100x but maybe 50x). When you step frame by frame, it works flawlessly. It's a great player for the price, considering all the media it plays (ours played DVD+RW... Read more

This is a very nice small, cheap, functional Toshiba DVD player that has been modified to play PAL and NTSC dvds irrespective of their region encoding. It does all these things perfectly, and produces high quality output. A very useful product if you want to play Asian or European discs in the US.

This is a solid DVD player without all the bells and whistles. I purchased it specifically for its multi-region capabilities. There are websites a plenty that tell you the secrets to unlocking the codes on almost any DVD player, however you do this at your own peril as I rendered my previous player completely useless by trying a hack. This player has been modified by a third party to achieve multi region and comes with its own guaranty. Simply, it works. Pop any DVD in from any region and it accepts and plays it.