DVD Region X (PS2)

Let's face it: Region 2 was never the best when it comes to DVD releases. If you want to get an obscure film from the 1980s, or a complete cartoon series from your youth, or the collected works of the Three Stooges dating back to the 1930s, or anything that isn't mainstream and current in the UK, you're pretty much out of luck. I thought I could use my computer to play all my discs, Region 1 included, but then I discovered that computers, for some perverse reason, will only let you change the DVD region two or three times before locking up.Then a friend recommended this Region X disc to me, and I was suddenly able to watch whatever discs I wanted, whenever I wanted, on my old PS2 (it's one of the very first PS2s released). After all, why buy a whole new machine when you can buy a cheap bit of software that will make your old machine work just fine? And I love this product. It's very simple and very effective.You turn on your TV and PS2. Pop the Region X disc in your PS2. Your PS2 does some thinking, the screen asks you to choose what region you want to play, you choose it, and your PS2 spits the Region X disc back out. Replace the Region X disc with the DVD you want to watch, press the button to get the disc-tray back in, wait a bit, and your foreign DVD is ready to play!PROS: Will allow you to view DVDs from anywhere in the world. Very useful for titles that, for whatever annoying reason, just aren't published in Region 2 (or whatever your home DVD Region is). Simple, easy-to-follow onscreen instructions should take care of your needs 95% - 99.9% of the time. Can be used over and over and over for years, and will not cause your PS2 to "lock" into a DVD Region after a couple of uses.CONS: Sometimes the region change won't take and you need to do "The IT Crowd" thing (turn if off and on again) and try again, but it only happens rarely. Lack of full instruction book. If I have one complaint, it's that my PS2 is a very sensitive DVD player that will simply refuse to play some discs (even in the native Region 2) or throw fits and classify a disc as "unreadable" if it's got a speck of dust on it, but that's the PS2's fault, not the fault of the Region X disc. And, yeah, okay, you have to use this every single time you want to change the Region setting, and the setting reverts to your native Region if you turn the PS2's power off or put it in standby mode. But if that's your biggest complaint, then, frankly, you're spoilt.I haven't noticed much in the way of problems with this product, certainly not some of the problems other reviewers have noted. Maybe I lucked out, maybe the others got bad copies; I couldn't say. On the whole, I'm very, very happy with this purchase, even six years later. Highly recommended.

I have purchased this hoping I can play NSTC games on my PS2 when I booted it up it didn't work at first but when I got it working the 1 to 6 option did not show up instead I get a black.screen with red numbers like "DVD player 3310" something like that if you can reply back wiit a solution to this problem I would abdicate it

I own a multi region Pioneer DV717 but unfortunately some of the newer region 1 DVD's have been specially encrypted so they wont play on most multi region players (including mine). When I tried this Region X with Hollow Man (region 1 new encrypted) I wasnt expecting it to work as my Pioneer Multi region cant play it...............but it did!!!!You will be able to play any dvd from any region in seconds, just plug and play. For some dvds, (any region) you may need a proper scart lead that supports RGB, because some films will display in a strange grey/green colour with the naff standard euro/scart lead.

No question about wether it works or not. It does. But then why dosn't it get 5 stars. Because of a number of reasons. First of all you have to first boot up a CD and then change it to the DVD you want to watch. But that's a minor problem. Second it can be quite a struggel to upgrade the codes on the DVD Region X. It takes some time...Put all in all it's a great product that makes you watch regoin 1-6 on your PS2 without making any hardware changes.

This product worked once on my ps2 and then the ps2 would no longer read the disc and asked me to insert a Playstation 2 disc. After looking up why this was it looks like it doesn't work on the slimline version. Not sure why it worked once though?! Seems to be because the newer versions have a manual open for the disc tray. I have managed to get around this by keeping my finger on the open tray button and usually this works and lets the disc load. The only other problem is it doesn't save the information even with a memory card so every time i want to play a region 1 disc i have to go though the hastle of keeping my finger on the open button and then swapping discs. Might be easier just to buy a region free DVD player.

it works as advertised

Works brilliantly! I buy DVDs with other region codes and play them without a single problem on my PS2 slimline.I dont know what I did before having DVD Region X-- I guess I watched far fewer movies!

Silly me i bought a european version of this, when i had realised, only after receiving this, that i needed an australian version. Oh well.

Es un producto perfecto y dura mucho tiempo...es decir si se cuida bien no se raya y te funcionará durante años. Es muy sencillo y fácil de utilizar

funziona ottimamente.inserisci il CD nella PS2, la accendi, scegli la regione del DVDtogli ll CD e inserisci il DVD di regione non italia e lo vedi perfettamente.Con poca spesa si può avere un grosso risparmio infatti molti DVD di importazione costano parecchio meno rispetto alla versione italiana.

Wichtig ist es auf jeden Fall beim kauf dieser Software darauf zu achten, dass sie nur für DIE ALTE PS2 geeignet ist. Denn auf der neuen schmaleren PS2 funktioniert sie leider nicht. Auch wenn ich nicht weiter als über das Hauptmenü bei der Software hinaus kam, so kann ich doch sagen, dass die Software - das was ich bisher gesehen habe - selbsterklärend zu sein scheint. Übersichtlich und man muss nicht unbedingt selbst viel tun. Mehr kann ich dazu auch nicht sagen, da die Software ja nicht für meine relativ neuen Playstation 2 geeignet ist... was allerdings auch in der Produktbeschreibung drinnen steht, ich aber leider es einfach übersehen habe,Also liebe Interessenten... das Produkt ist NUR für DIE ALTE PS2 geeignet!!!!!

日本のPS2では読み込みません。つまり使えません。注意して下さい。

Bien. Hace que se vean los DVDs de otras regiones, pero a mí me cuesta más de 10 reseteados que arranque la reproducción. Un poco engorroso, por tanto.