i have this player in region 1, can someone help me to make it muiti region?
Looks like its a firmware upgrade, doesnt seem to be a handset hack at all. You could try something like the following but u need to rent the service disc.
http://www.multiregionupgrades.co.uk/upgrades/mods/pandisc.htm
I know you are not in UK, its just an example!
I have an old Panasonic portable DVD player, but I can't find the charger. Can I safely use a different AC adaptor, with different specs, to either run the player, or charge the battery? The player is a Panasonic DVD-LV75. The proper adaptor for it is 9V and 2A. The battery is a Panasonic CGP-H501 (7.2V 6000mAh Li-ion).
Can I use a different Voltage or Amperage adaptor to charge the battery? If so, what would work?
I would not recommend using another charger to charge your player UNLESS it's the same EXACT voltage/watts/amps. You can burn the DVD player up and possibly cause a fire. You can just get a new charger I believe from needbattery.com
Here's a link
http://www.needbattery.com/Portable-DVD-Player/Panasonic/DVD-LV75.html
have you been to sabco? there are alot of places to get them i got mine from a place at sabco or try
sony show room
panasonic showroom
its belong to bahwan company
why not just get one of those universal remote controls ?
I almost bought an LS82 - the man in the shop told me he could set it to multi-region. Instead, I bought an LS86 online. Both are listed as NOT being multi-region, but I assume it must be possible for my LS86, given what the man in the shop said?? THANKS!
That's weird. As far as I know, all DVD players have been region free for years. At least they are in my country.
The very first portable DVD player I bought was like 7 years ago. It was a Panasonic and it was region fixed. My sister bought the very same model like a month later and it was region free.
I bought a second one, also a Panasonic, about 3 or 4 years ago and it was region free as well.
try these
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.php?select=Sony+DVP-NS530
http://www.multiregionupgrades.com/upgrades/mods/jvcinfo.htm
http://www.dvd365.net/hacks/hacklist.htm
http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=176&Thread=538462&Type=1&Page=1
http://www.dvdchips.co.uk/
I have a Panasonic portable DVD player. I see by the hole for the power plug that it says 9V. Could I buy any 9 volt AC adapter and plug my player into my car? Would this hurt my player? The factory car adapter is quite expensive.
And no...I'm not going to watch it while I drive.
you need an adapter that will convert the 12v DC car battery to 9v DC for your DVD player. It also needs to be able to supply enough current. If you have the specs for the factory car adapter then you could use one that matches the same specs. Just make sure the voltage is the same (9v DC), and the current is at least the same. Example is if the factory one outputs 200ma, then the one you get needs to be able to output at least 200ma, but it could also be higher, say 300ma, but it would cost more.
As someone alse said, aslo make sure the polarity is the same. Most likely if it isnt it just wont work. I doubt very much it would damage the DVD player.
i was looking @ this 1:
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DVD-LS80-8-5-Portable-Player/dp/B000O3LUIY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197995071&sr=8-2
do u know if it's any good?? if not, what is another 1 that is good? thanks ♥
Hi!
That DVD-Player that you where looking at,
was pretty GOOD!
I just provided a few links for U.
Here are also some portale DVD-Players
click on these links to view.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8200868&st=portable+dvd+player&type=product&id=1165610071617
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6486441
http://www.target.com/Polaroid-Swivel-Portable-DVD-Player/dp/B000PY9SNG/sr=1-3/qid=1197998640/ref=sr_1_3/602-4008840-5023052?ie=UTF8&index=target&field-original-keywords=portabel%20dvd%20player&rh=k%3Aportable%20dvd%20player&page=1
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I hope this will help you a bit!
a sony dynex or panaic or durabrand portable dvd player at i already checked at ebay they have none that i like
Radio SHack
Costco
Best Buy
Circuit City
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Panasonic Australia managing director Steve Rust says Blu-ray discs are "incredibly important'' to the entertainment industry and are "the missing piece of the mainstream home-entertainment puzzle'' for those with high-definition TV screens.
For this reason, Panasonic this year launched market research into Blu-ray technology to gauge the public's knowledge of the format.
But Rust says consumer wisdom on the two-year-old format was so low, the research had to be halted. "There was just no point continuing it,'' he says.
Panasonic DVD and Blu-ray product manager Sophie Barton says consumers fear their old DVD collections will not play in a Blu-ray player, even though all Blu-ray players will play standard DVDs and many will improve them to near-HD quality.
Other consumers were affected by the bad experiences of early adopters, Barton says, or were scared off by the price of the technology.
"We are coming up to a tipping point for Blu-ray discs and people are starting to recognise the technology. It's just the understanding of what it does that we really need to work on,'' she says.
JB Hi-Fi marketing director Scott Browning says some consumers might be confused and hesitant as a result of the high-definition DVD format war between Blu-ray disc and Toshiba's HD-DVD format in its early years.
Toshiba ceased production of HD-DVD players and discs in February last year, ending a fierce two-year battle.
"I think Blu-ray suffered most from the format war and ... the preoccupation with winners and losers,'' Browning says.
"I think it's still coming out of that stigma.''
Despite this dearth of consumer education, Blu-ray player and movie sales have jumped significantly in Australia this year, vastly outperforming the growth of standard DVDs at the same period in its life cycle.
Panasonic consumer electronic group director Paul Reid says DVD sales jumped 200 per cent between its third and fourth year in the US market, and the same growth can be seen one year early for Blu-ray technology in the US.
"In Australia the rate of growth is even more significant,'' Reid says.
"We expect to see at the end of 2009 a 400 per cent increase in sales (of stand-alone Blu-ray devices) against 2008.''
Reid says several factors are fuelling this increase for Blu-ray, including the cocooning effect seen this year due to tough financial times, and the price of Blu-ray players that has fallen from more than $1500 to less than $400.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment managing director Chris Dunn says the wide availability of Blu-ray movies is also boosting hardware sales, as "no one is going to make a transition to the home-entertainment equipment unless there's a variety of software out there''.
Dunn says the company has now launched 110 Blu-ray in Australia, with several proving more popular than the company expected.
Australians snapped up 17,000 Blu-ray copies of The Dark Knight in its first week of release, for example, while other action-based films such as Quantum of Solace also significantly boosted Blu-ray DVD sales.
Dunn says the sales records have movie studios contemplating a day when films are released on Blu-ray DVD alone.
"At some point in time it might be that the Blu-ray title will be released ahead of the DVD and I see a time when movies will be released in Blu-ray only,'' Dunn says.
In the meantime, Australian cinema buffs are being given plenty of encouragement to upgrade their DVD player to high-definition models.
Panasonic this year released the first portable Blu-ray DVD player and the first Blu-ray DVD recorder in Australia, and recently began offering 12 months of online Blu-ray and DVD rental with some of its Blu-ray home-theatre systems.
Sony is also battling for new Blu-ray users, launching an offer on November 25 for a free Blu-ray player and three Blu-ray DVDs with some LCD televisions.
The company also offered a similar deal giving away PlayStation 3 consoles, which can play Blu-ray discs and games.
Time will tell whether these deals and falling prices making Christmas 2009 Blu-ray's true tipping point, but Harding says Australian TV lovers are likely catch on as they realise they are not getting the most out of their big-screen televisions.
"If you've recently bought a full high-definition plasma or LCD and you're only watching standard-definition content you're missing out,'' he says.
The economic downturn has weighed heavily on the fortunes of the Consumer Electronics industry. Consumer electronics sales stagnated in 2008 and through most of 2009 as a result of the deteriorating economic conditions in the U.S. With little to no revenue growth, consumer electronics companies have been resorting to cost-cutting and share repurchases to drive bottom-line growth.
In the first half of 2009, 50% of the world’s electronic equipment makers experienced revenue declines. Inventory drawdown from last year further impacted volumes in major consumer electronics categories. The recession hit the consumer electronics industry in the back half of 2008, pulling down annual revenue numbers. The average U.S. household spent $1,229 on consumer electronics in 2008, a 12.5% decline from 2007. All consumer electronics companies witnessed significant gross margin declines, as prices went down year over year. As a result, leading hardware companies started pushing units to sustain revenue growth at the significantly lower prices.
Weak consumer spending, deferred discretionary purchases, heavy price declines, headwind from foreign currency fluctuations, cannibalization of existing markets (i.e. the shift from desktops to laptops to netbooks), a mature PC market, compositional shifts in key product categories, intense competition and a slowdown in emerging markets all contributed to the weakness in consumer electronics.
Moreover, the current year has been challenging for the video gaming industry as a combination of the maturity in the market and the recession led to continued sales declines. Lack of new game releases, intense price wars among the top gaming companies, difficult economic conditions and a huge decline in consumer spending were additional challenges. Soaring costs of video game consoles and a huge decline in hardware prices have pressured manufacturers on both sides.
Moreover, most of the hardware market is mature and is highly competitive, with a slowing growth rate. According to the research firm NPD Group, the largest decline for consumer electronics was in hardware sales, which plummeted 10% year to date.
While 2009 started with muted sales, there was a pick-up in the second half. We believe consumer confidence is on the mend. So we expect full-year 2009 revenues from consumer electronics sales to be flat year over year, with growth coming in the latter half of 2010.
The CEA-CNET Index of Consumer Technology Expectations (ICTE) reached 93.5, the highest since January 2007. The index measures consumer expectations about technology spending.
According to the CEA, spending on consumer electronics will be up 8% this year, with more than 80% consumers (the highest ever) planning to buy consumer electronics products for gifting this holiday season. The CEA predicts that $222 will be spent by the average consumer. Factory sales are estimated to be about $165 billion in 2009. Moreover, shoppers will spend a larger part of their income on consumer electronics items this year than they have in the past three years.
Moreover, the major drivers for growth in consumer electronics will be a pick-up in technology spending, increasing PC sales, higher mergers and acquisitions, higher discounts, new product releases and the entrance of Chinese players into the U.S. market.
In 2009, the most successful Chinese IPO was the online video games maker Changyou.com Ltd ( CYOU ), carved out from Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com ( SOHU ) and Shanda Games Ltd ( GAME ), a subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd ( SNDA ). We believe a shift toward online gaming, particularly the multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) and increased government spending will benefit Chinese online game developers.
In our opinion, consumer electronics sales in the holiday season will be robust. Enterprise spending has rebounded modestly, although we have yet to see a significant acceleration in IT spending by large enterprise customers.
Price cuts on TVs, smartphones and games, as well as discounts at department stores, are the biggest attractions for consumers this holiday season. Consequently, we should expect to see margin pressure at both retailers and manufacturers.
The most important consumer electronics products include televisions, camcorders, DVD players/recorders, digital and still cameras, personal computers, LED and LCD TVs, games, cell phones and toys. Digital displays (comprising 15% of total industry sales) will continue to be the primary revenue driver for the industry.
It appears that the worst is over in consumer electronics, as demand for computers and flat panel display TVs is stronger than would be normal on a seasonal basis. But the worldwide recession had driven some consumer electronics companies to reduce production of components, which is now causing some shortage in the market. These include DVD and CD drives (since optical pick-up heads are in short supply), HDD drives for notebooks and LCD glass panels.
However, certain consumer electronics categories such as digital cameras and Mp3 players have reached maturation. Growth in the digital music player market may slow down as the core market becomes saturated.
The personal navigation device (PND) market has also matured as prices declined, consolidation occurred and shipment growth slowed. While the consumer electronics PND market is losing out to the GPS-enabled mobile phone market, we believe the market for GPS has been saturated as well and will not be able to bounce back to the level it had two years back. The CEA predicted that GPS sales this year will be 20% below the year-ago level.
OPPORTUNITIES
Our top pick in the consumer electronics sector is Apple Inc. ( AAPL ). Year-to-date, Apple share prices have more than doubled. Apple’s cash flow remains strong and the company has no debt. Its Macintosh product continues to gain market share, with significant gains in portables, music players and smart phones. The company has experienced tremendous growth as both revenue and earnings exhibited strong growth. We believe the company will continue to post solid results due to the resurgence of its Mac portable systems and growth in iPhones.
We also remain positive on Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ ) and expect growth to resume in the first half of 2010. The company has a strong cash position and returned $2.3 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends and has projected fiscal 2010 earnings above Zacks Consensus expectations. We expect Hewlett-Packard to grow as a result of a boost in PC sales and improved IT spending.
Although we have Neutral ratings on the largest consumer electronics makers such as Sony, Panasonic ( PC ) and Sharp Corporation, we believe the major driver of growth will be the upliftment in the outlook for the LCD TV market and robust sales of advanced DVD recorders and appliances. Even though the results for 2009 have been hit hard due to a slump in consumer electronics spending, weakening of the dollar against the yen, the worldwide recession and huge price cuts that impacted margins, both Sony and Panasonic raised their full year estimates.
Meanwhile, video gaming consoles are expected to be on the top spot this holiday season due to new releases and tremendous cost cuts. We remain positive on Take-Two Interactive ( TTWO ) and Electronic Arts ( ERTS ).
We are also positive on Amazon.com ( AMZN ), as the company’s sales in the holiday season will be much stronger than we had originally expected. Amazon’s e-reader, Kindle, is doing particularly well. Although many lesser-known consumer electronics products will enter the market, we expect Kindle sales to continue growing over the next few years. The company’s international business is also very strong. This segment continued to witness double-digit year-over-year growth throughout the recession, balancing out the softness in the consumer electronics domestic business. Profits have also increased, as International is a higher-margin business.
We particularly like Seagate ( STX ) for its higher cash-flow generation abilities and its HDD business, which remains a growth driver for the industry.
Longer term, we would look for consumer electronics stocks that are rich in valuation, diversified revenue bases, have positive cash flows and have potential growth in earnings. We expect the results for most of the consumer electronics companies and retailers to improve, driven by strong holiday season sales.
WEAKNESSES
While the Consumer Electronics industry is in a state of recovery, consumers are still cautious in their spending, which we believe will take time to recover. Even though sentiment among consumers is improving, consumer electronics retailers still face a challenging environment. We recommend avoiding stocks that offer little or no growth opportunities.
We are concerned about LG Display ( LPL ) and strongly advise investors to stay away from the stock. The company has been witnessing an oversupply of TFT-LCD panels and falling ASPs are a deep concern. Moreover, the company is witnessing intense competition in the LCD business from bigger Asian companies.
We would like to avoid consumer electronics stocks such as Palm Inc ( PALM ), given the growing competition and increased pricing pressure. We believe Palm’s competitive position has been permanently damaged by its antiquated offerings, and the company is still selling only a small fraction of Pre phones to smart-phone users.
Sam's sales begin on-line Thanksgiving Day, all day. Their Black Friday ad is offering the Acer Aspire One 10.1″ Netbook for $197.00 and the HP G71 17″ LED Notebook w/Blu-ray for $499.00.
In the television isle, it's the Hitachi 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV – $598.00, Phillips 52″ 1080p LCD HDTV – $1198.00 and the Vizio 47″ 1080p 240Hz LCD HDTV – $997.00.
In other odds and ends, Sams Club is offering Black Friday sales discounts on the Olympus FE-4000 12 MegaPixel Camera – $98.00, JVC 1080p Blu-ray Player – $129.00, and the Garmin Nuvi 255w GPS Navigation System – $119.00
There’s also Toys and video games for $15 and $20, and a three piece sterling silver and 1/3 carat diamond bangle bracelet for $148.00.
KMART s are out with their Black Friday sales for 2009 and like their competitors, televisions are a popular selling point: 32” Sony Bravia L Series 32″ 720p LCD HDTV for $379, an Element 26″ LCD HDTV for $249.99 and a Panasonic 42″ 720 Plasma TV for $549.99.
If you’re looking for something to connect to your new TV, Kmart is offering a Magnavox DVD Player w/VCR – $49.99, Memorex 1080P HDMI Upconvert DVD Player – $29.99 and a Sylvania 7 Inch Portable DVD Player – $49.99.
In cameras, Kmart has the Kodak CD80 Digital Camera Bundle – $79.99, the Samsung SL40 Digitial Camera – $79.99 and the Sony W180 Digital Camera – $99.99.
For the car, Kmarts Black Friday sale ad is offering the Magellan Roadmate 1220 GPS Navigation System – $84.99, the TomTom ONE 130 GPS – $79.99, and the TomTom XL325S GPS Navigation System – $99.99.
In gaming, Kmart is offering the XBox 360 Elite Bundle w/Halo 3 OSDT for $299.99, and a range of discount games including Brutal Legend, Dirt 2, Dragon Age, Halo 3 OSDT and Left 4 Dead 2 for $39.99.
Office Max opens at 7 a.m. and Tractor's Supply has some early bird deals posted on-line.
Several on-line sites are a mecca for all the deals, like BlackFridayAds.
Kohls open at 4 a.m. -- will offer "The Big One" bath towels for just $2.49 each, Milton Bradley family board games for $3.99 each and a George Foreman Lean Mean Grill for just $9.99! Electronics will also be found inside the store at low prices such as the LeapFrog Tag Reading System for $29.99, a Panimage 7" Digital Photo Frame also for $29.99 and a 19" LCD HDTV w/Built-in DVD Player for $199.99.
All Nintendo Wii games in stock at Kohls are going to be marked 20%-30% off their regular prices. There will be discounted jewelry, clothing, fragrances, cosmetics, bed sheet sets and appliances.
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Black Friday deals online are important for Putnam County residents that don't want to get in the Black Friday traffic.
Sears Black Friday deals online are available starting on Thanksgiving day. Even if you plan on braving the crowds on Black Friday, you can still head out to Sears.com and do some early bargain hunting.
Walmart.com has Black Friday deals online, although the deals may differ from what is available in stores. Walmart.com has a variety of daily deals, so checking their site each and every day could help you save lots of money.
Amazon says it's starting Black Friday now. Eye-catching offer: KitchenAid 6-quart stand mixer for $299.99, down from $499.99. Plus there's that $50 rebate. A DVD of "Slumdog Millionaire" is $7.99 right now, down from around $30! And hit the "special offers" link to see how to get several magazine subscriptions (Men's Journal, Rolling Stone, Us Weekly) for $1 each with the purchase. AND -- after I bought this they sent me a $5 video on demand credit. All that for $7.99.
And for the truly Thrifty Shopper, the usual deals at GoodWill and other second hand shops (including pawn shops) will be ready to show you exactly how limber good old George Washington can be in 2009.
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