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How to Watch Region 2 DVDs

Most of the DVDs sold at J-List are region-free, so you can view them on any DVD player. But some DVDs -- mainly Indies releases from companies other than Soft on Demand, a few titles by Soft on Demand, and all Japanese-released anime and hentai titles, are coded for region 2 (Japan and Europe).

There are several ways to get around these codes, including buying a code-free DVD player, which are quite easy to find, or you can view the DVDs on your computer's DVD-ROM drives. Look for more information below. To see all the region 2 DVDs at J-List, click this link.

For those interested in a full-featured code-free DVD player, J-List recommends (and sells) several excellent players which give you many features, such as region free DVD playback, support for DVD/Video CD/MP3, NTSC and PAL playback, universal power supply, and so on. Please see all the players we currently stock. Please see the reasonably-priced DVD players that we sell.

Another popular way to view region 2 DVDs is on your computer's DVD-ROM player, if you have one. As a general rule, you can change your DVD-ROM's region 5 times before it's set forever (Peter keeps his Powerbook set to region 2 for convenience, so he can always watch region 2 DVDs on the road.) If you have two CD-ROM drive bays, you can add a second DVD-ROM drive which you can permanently leave set to region 2, too.

We positively love DVD, and are happy to be able to make some fantastic titles available from Japan to everyone. Please feel free to email us with any questions you have.

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