Lots of information here Elana... ( LINK ) 

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Lots of information here Elana... ( LINK ) 

Thank you Lightstar.  I saw the wise bread one.  I was confused by my search results, and a bit gun shy as I wondered if this approach was legal? 

Should be perfectly legal if the DVD player was designed to have region codes removed Elana. Try looking at those articles first.

Austrailia's Consumer Protection agency [the ACCC] declared Region Coding restrictions a 'restriction of trade' and thus contrary to our Consumer Law.

To conform with International Controls [read USA] any/all DVD players/recorders/PVRs had to be imported into Australia as Region 4 but anyone was then entirely free under our Consumer Law to alter them to accept any/all codes....usually as an extra fee...but Panasonic got around it by simply not declaring in the RTFM that they were already Region Free....and thus were the weapon-of-choice.

Every DVD and Blue-Ray machine I have ever had can play them all...

There are two options: Most players will accept a code (entered from your remote) to make then region free. Try this website to see if your player has a code listed:  http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks   If not found there, try a search "Region free dvd code" and maybe some other site will have your player listed.

The other possibility is to buy a region free player. I have bought several from this site with no problems:    http://www.220-electronics.com/region-free-blu-ray-players.html  (they have blu ray and dvd players from various manufacturers). Do a search "region free dvd player" to find other sellers.

It looks OK to me. I have no experience with Samsung players, but it fits your requirements.

Have you looked into converting your present player to region free? I've tried it on a couple players of mine over the years, and it works fine. The manufacturers build them that way; you aren't hacking it in the normal sense, you are utilizing the manufacturers engineering and software. 

I looked into region free players a long time ago because I like old British movies, and most of them are unavailable in North American format. I go to Amazon in the UK and get my movies and so on from them.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

I hope that this helps.

Samsung DVD players work great Elana, a friend of mine has had one for years. 

HDCP is a copy protection protocol that has been around for about 15 years. It has gone through a few versions, and it seems that newer versions may not be backwards compatible with v1.0. Most new devices have it built in; your older TV may have it. Look in the manual (or search online for the manual) to see if your device is compliant. If not, apparently this HDMI splitter  http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-Powered-Splitter-1080P-Model/dp/B004F9LVXC  will allow a non-compliant device to view the program in full HD. If none of this works, you could use the standard RCA white-red-yellow cable to connect to your TV, but at a lower resolution. My guess is that you stand a good chance of success if you buy this unit; if not, try the splitter. Here is an article that will be helpful. They discuss how they have used the splitter successfully and give a good overview of HDCP.

http://www.howtogeek.com/208917/htg-explains-how-hdcp-breaks-your-hdtv-and-how-to-fix-it/   

You're welcome. I hope it works for you. I'll be curious to find out the results.

Nice source link willistuder and they're cheaper than Amazon by a lot.

Oh, yes.  Sorry, I did not subscrinbe to this post - so forgot.  Yes, cheap dvd player that playes mods dvds from anywhere except china.  Thanks again for pointing me in right direction.  Now I just have to figure out how to make copies of a few DVDs I own so that i don't lose them when they wear out.  My grandkids watch a few of them fairly often.  

yes, not need adaptor.  Yea!     

good to know as backup!     whats vlc media?