Another UK player option for Americans and Canadians

[Tembo]

Rather than purchasing modded players a new idea for us here in North America is purchasing a B 2 player from the UK and using it to play discs from Europe. This however normally requires a reliable 110v-220v step-up transformer.

However, it seems that a number of players operate from 12v DC current and are supplied with a wall-wart type adapter.

In several cases the same model is sold in both North America and Europe and operate on the same 12v DC voltage, requiring that they be supplied with an appropriate wall wart transformer for local mains current. This of course is a huge advantage in manufacturing cost savings as the physical innards are identical with only the region code programming being different.

For us this means that we can purchase a region B2 player from Europe in the knowledge that it will work here, once we purchase the appropriate wall wart for the same model.

I've just checked some Sonys and the wall warts used here in NA and Europe all feed 12vDC centre polarity into the players. I believe there are some models by other manufacturers that this can work with.

The big advantage here is that we will be able to play European discs in the "correct" region players.

The most difficult part of this idea is actually identifying suitable players and locating North American wall wart transformers!