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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Region-Free DVD Viewing

I have just received my new iView Media Player in the mail, after a two-week wait, and can now play DVDs from France (or anywhere in the world)!  The children are now watching Thomas et ses amis (the French version of Thomas and Friends, available only in France), and they don't even seem to notice that it's in French.  Sebastian has been enamored of Thomas for about a year, although he's only seen one or two episodes in English, and it's much less flashy and hyperactive than most of the shows created for children these days, so I ordered a Thomas DVD  from Amazon.fr as soon as I ordered my multiregion DVD player.

The iView Media Player cost me 56.99 USD, including shipping, from www.samstores.com, took about 30 seconds to set up, and is working beautifully so far...

We are only watching television twice a week now, but I already have two children's films originally created in France for our next couple of viewing sessions.  I hope to wean Sebastian off Thomas and Friends and onto classic French children's films as soon as possible.  I think there must be some good African children's films in French and will start looking into that as a project for the new year.

2 comments:

best4future said...

Hello, Susan:

Can you all powerful DVD player play Chinese VCD and DVD as well?

also, Serena looks quite alike Sophia, even their hair look similar. She is so beautiful!

Lina

Susan Herrick-Gleason said...

Hi Lina,

It plays my Chinese VCDs. I don't have any DVDs from China to try, yet, but I expect that they would work; the player is supposed to play any DVD in the world.