VCR'S

[AL151 0]

Anyone know a hotel around Pattaya with a VCR in the room ....A hotel that is not to expensive..........Last time I was there I stayed at a place that had a DVD player ..I paid about 650BHT.a night......

[bigmofo 0]

you can buy a dvd player for around 1000 baht, i would think vcr same price or cheaper,just buy one and stay where you want good luck

[mats 0]

1000 bath, for a DVD player ? wow, that`s cheap... where can one get one of those ?

 

Mats

[RICK69 0]

1000 bath, for a DVD player ? wow, that`s cheap... where can one get one of those ?

 

Mats

Tops

[bigmofo 0]

yes i bought one at tops

[echster 1]

Anyone know a hotel around Pattaya with a VCR in the room ....A hotel that is not to expensive..........Last time I was there I stayed at a place that had a DVD player ..I paid about 650BHT.a night......

You're unlikely to find a hotel with VCRs in the room. The reasons are simple, DVD/VCD players are inexpensive and DVD/VCDs are cheaper to buy and maintain. Oh yeah, and they don't have to be rewound!

[Firepole 181]

Al,

I'm not sure if your plan is to bring VCR tapes to LOS from home but keep in mind that, like DVDs, there might be a differant format. I thought I read somewhere that it has something to with VCR's designed to play for North American TV's therefore making No. Amer. recorded tapes useless elsewhere. Similar to the situation with DVD players but I believe they can be reprogrammed whereas VCR's can't.

If anyone knows this info to be incorrect please post it as I'd like to know myself.

[Dingo 0]

Haven Hotel in Soi 13 used to have VCD players.

The place gets very mixed reviews so be aware.

[SunnyValentine 173]

Al,

I'm not sure if your plan is to bring VCR tapes to LOS from home but keep in mind that, like DVDs, there might be a differant format. I thought I read somewhere that it has something to with VCR's designed to play for North American TV's therefore making No. Amer. recorded tapes useless elsewhere. Similar to the situation with DVD players but I believe they can be reprogrammed whereas VCR's can't.

If anyone knows this info to be incorrect please post it as I'd like to know myself.

Well, it all comes down to two (well, actually three) different technical systems for TV Viewing. There is NTSC in USA (and Japan), PAL in Europe and most of Asia (including Thailand), and there is SECAM in France and Eastern Europe.

In the last 5 or so Years, most (but by no means all) TVs, VCRs and DVD/VCD Players can play back all of them. Older ones cannot.

So, with a new System you can play any VCR Tape anywhere in the world. DVD Players also have a so called Region Code, a preprogrammed "feature" that checks wether the Disc you play is licensed for the Country you're in, and prohibits the playback in case it finds you are somewhere else. Most cheaper players can override this setting by some (more or less secret) setting from the remote Control. For the more expensive Players like Pionerr, Sony, JVC, you might have to change the Software, either by reprogramming it yourself (lots of info on the Internet, just Google your Manufaturer's name, the Name of the Player, and "Region Free") or get a different Chip from some vendors (again, Google and you find).

 

Is this legal? Well, probably yes, but I don't know for sure. Is it morally ok to change this? Definitely. The same Companies that trouble our economies by choosing the countries with the lowest workforce costs when it comes to manufaturing are taking care of Anti-globalisation measures that limit your buyers rights .....

 

Sunny

[Emil 0]

and I thought I was behind on the technological curve. Do you need the Beta or VHS format.

[Bigmike 0]

Sunny a bit of triva for you. All DVD players sold in Australia these days can play any DVD'S from any where in the world as they are all multi zoned. The Australian Government claim that the multi zoning policy is not valid here, at least we get some things right. You can pick up a new DVD player for under 100 bucks Aussie here that can be played any in the World.

Bigmike.

[SunnyValentine 173]

and I thought I was behind on the technological curve. Do you need the Beta or VHS format.

Well, Beta is still available anywhere except in museums? Wake up, it's been a few weeks since the Seventeens!

VHS is the only household Video Format left since, ah, Jimmy Carter?

 

Sunny

[SunnyValentine 173]

Sunny a bit of triva for you. All DVD players sold in Australia these days can play any DVD'S from any where in the world as they are all multi zoned. The Australian Government claim that the multi zoning policy is not valid here, at least we get some things right. You can pick up a new DVD player for under 100 bucks Aussie here that can be played any in the World.

Bigmike.

Thanks for that Info. That's Amazing!

How do the Aussie DVD players work around the RPC2 Regional Coding though? (The one used in the USA since a few Years where the Disc tries to "trick" the player, so finding out that the Player is region-free?

Most players I know that have Multi-region facilities cannot play these discs. Only the chaeper ones where you can manually program a Region Code do work.

 

 

Sunny

[Emil 0]

Well, Beta is still available anywhere except in museums? Wake up, it's been a few weeks since the Seventeens!

Could you please translate. I hope you figured out by reading the preceding phrase that the question regarding the type of format was not a serious question.

[SunnyValentine 173]

Sorry, Emil, no offense intended, I justtook you too serious .....

 

Sunny

[ashboy 22]

I buy a lot of DVDs and VCDs on E-bay USA. Since I got shown how to play them I've had no problems. For me it's just one setting on the player (via the remote) and I'm sweet. If I forget the setting, most discs still play but the quality is poor.

 

I also brought back DVDs from my last trip to Hong Kong. They appear to be region coded, but they play no problems.

 

BTW. A couple of years ago my job involved provedoring ocean going vessels including mobile oil rigs and their tender vessels. One vessel (British) wanted three TVs to play their videos. The ones we supplied were PAL, but a different setting to British PAL. Had to resupply multi-system TVs.

 

And I got three TVs.

[ashboy 22]

And so far as I know, until they went digital, TV stations and production houses still used Beta in preference to VHS.

[SunnyValentine 173]

Ashboy, that's right, but this is a professional Beta System with barely a resmblance to the home Betamax System the grandfathers amidst us used to be familiar with. By the way, does anybody still remember the "Video2000" system?

I've lately been told by someone who knows alot about these things, that it was technically superior to both VHS and Betamax, just could not succeed on the market as being too late to grow a bigger number of Companies producing Hardware.

 

Sunny