I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

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I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by findiamerican » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:35 pm

In Finland? It was bought in the US, it not, what should I be getting to make it work?

Would thank you greatly for your advice. :shock:



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Re: I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by Pursuivant » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:46 pm

Yoiu want the short answer or the long answer? Not necessarily or not at all. Has to be multi-region and multivoltage for starters... 110v is possible if you get yourself a big humming box and if its NTSC the digiboxes won't understand it iunless you get one that does.
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Re: I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by findiamerican » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:57 pm

Well, i should clarify i mostly only use it for watching movies. so you're saying in need this additional 'box' to get it to work, if at all, will check with the guides/tore for multi-voltage capablities. thanks for that.

also, in the US we have things like netflix and blockbuster for dvd's on rent, is there a similar service there

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Re: I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by sinikala » Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:59 am

findiamerican wrote:also, in the US we have things like netflix and blockbuster for dvd's on rent, is there a similar service there
There are several rental chains such as http://www.filmtown.fi/

Remember there is also the issue of DVD region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code you need to make sure your DVD player will play region 2 disks.
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Re: I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by Upphew » Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:07 am

findiamerican wrote:also, in the US we have things like netflix and blockbuster for dvd's on rent, is there a similar service there
Noup, we don't have one which sends rental movies by mail.
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Re: I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by sinikala » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:58 pm

Upphew wrote:
findiamerican wrote:also, in the US we have things like netflix and blockbuster for dvd's on rent, is there a similar service there
Noup, we don't have one which sends rental movies by mail.
I thought there was ...

http://www.dvdnet.fi/club/default.php

OK, looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.

I don't see the point myself, but I have a Filmtown in the next building and Finnkino is 90 seconds walk. :thumbsup:
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Post by Pursuivant » Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:43 pm

findiamerican wrote:Well, i should clarify i mostly only use it for watching movies.
So if its not a multiregion player it won't work as we have region 2 PAL and yours is region 1 NTSC.
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Re: I have Sony TV and Home Theatre from the US, will it work?

Post by AldenG » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:43 pm

You can pretty easily find out whether your DVD player will work by Googling for DVD region code hack and looking up your model.

Note that there are TWO SEPARATE issues, as others have said or implied. One is whether you can change or remove the region code. The other is whether your player can convert from PAL to NTSC. Some players are very much easier to work with than others. Difficult players include Sony and JVC, I believe. On the other hand, I got a $40 Samsung player at Walmart, followed the instructions I found on the Web, and was playing Region-2 PAL DVD's on my NTSC TV in about 2 minutes. That was after failing with a Sony -- I was able to remove the region code on a Sony DVD/VCR player, but it was not able to handle PAL. That's not my only basis for saying Sony and JVC are difficult, though. If I recall correctly, those were the brands mentioned on the Forums I found as being problematic. Sometimes when you can't modify region/format using secret codes on the remote (the standard method) you can do so by downloading new firmware, putting it onto a CD-R, and rebooting the player with that CD-R to overwrite the player's firmware. It's better with remote codes, as you can undo them just by resetting the player.

I'm not sure I understand why you don't sell the thing instead of crating it carefully and insuring it for trans-atlantic shipping and keeping your fingers crossed. Then buy a new one in Finland that will handle NTSC and PAL.
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