Are Alpine DVD headunits region free?

chodecz · Post by **chodecz** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:14 am

Hi,

I was looking to buy an Alpine DVD headunit from the US (either DVA-9965 or DVA-9861), but I'm in the UK which has DVD region 2 as opposed to USA's 1. Will it play my DVDs?

I would also like to know if this is the case for all DVD tuners from America?

Warm regards.

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:09 pm

Took some digging, but when I finally got to page 27 in the manual, I found that the Unit DVA 9861 can be set to country codes 1-9, but only for parental guards and otherwise should play all regions if not set, but you may have to play around with the language settings.
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chodecz · Post by **chodecz** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:02 pm

Thank you cargodz! So to confirm, you can set the region manually for parental guards, but normally it will play ALL regions??

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:14 pm

chodecz wrote:Thank you cargodz! So to confirm, you can set the region manually for parental guards, but normally it will play ALL regions??

You got it