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    From GeoffC@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 7 09:46:01 2020
    Some years ago I started importing anime blu-rays from the Far East.
    Inevitably there is the region problem as the Far east is region A while
    the UK is region B. Fortunately the Studio Ghibli BDs are generally all
    region (region free) as well as having English subtitled. I did acquire
    one BD which was region A and had to acquire a region A player to play
    it. And this was the only BD that would not play on my Sony BDP-S480 IIRC.
    I have been recovering from an illness recently and looking through my collection wanted to confirm which was the unplayable one. I'm pretty
    sure it was "From Up on Poppy Hill", Tiawanese edition, marked as Region A.
    So I put it in the BDP-S480, and what happens? I get a message saying
    something like "This disk may take three minutes to start playing",
    which I have never seen before. And then it started to play, and worked perfectly.
    Go figure.

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  • From anthony.baranyi@bell.net@21:1/5 to GeoffC on Thu May 7 07:48:49 2020
    On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 4:46:06 AM UTC-4, GeoffC wrote:
    Some years ago I started importing anime blu-rays from the Far East. Inevitably there is the region problem as the Far east is region A while
    the UK is region B. Fortunately the Studio Ghibli BDs are generally all region (region free) as well as having English subtitled. I did acquire
    one BD which was region A and had to acquire a region A player to play
    it. And this was the only BD that would not play on my Sony BDP-S480 IIRC.
    I have been recovering from an illness recently and looking through my collection wanted to confirm which was the unplayable one. I'm pretty
    sure it was "From Up on Poppy Hill", Tiawanese edition, marked as Region A. So I put it in the BDP-S480, and what happens? I get a message saying something like "This disk may take three minutes to start playing",
    which I have never seen before. And then it started to play, and worked perfectly.
    Go figure.

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  • From GeoffC@21:1/5 to anthony.baranyi@bell.net on Thu May 7 23:04:59 2020
    On 5/7/2020 3:48 PM, anthony.baranyi@bell.net wrote:
    On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 4:46:06 AM UTC-4, GeoffC wrote:
    Some years ago I started importing anime blu-rays from the Far East.
    Inevitably there is the region problem as the Far east is region A while
    the UK is region B. Fortunately the Studio Ghibli BDs are generally all
    region (region free) as well as having English subtitled. I did acquire
    one BD which was region A and had to acquire a region A player to play
    it. And this was the only BD that would not play on my Sony BDP-S480 IIRC. >> I have been recovering from an illness recently and looking through my
    collection wanted to confirm which was the unplayable one. I'm pretty
    sure it was "From Up on Poppy Hill", Tiawanese edition, marked as Region A. >> So I put it in the BDP-S480, and what happens? I get a message saying
    something like "This disk may take three minutes to start playing",
    which I have never seen before. And then it started to play, and worked
    perfectly.
    Go figure.

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    That's not clear, but it has an active Internet connection.

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