I bought the Alba 114 a while back knowing it played VCDs, MP3s and was mult-regional out of the box. It`s a fine machine and the fact it uses PAL 60 for the NTSC > PAL conversion means the NTSC DVDs I have play wonderfully. The problem is that a few DVDs I want to purchase are RCE encoded and I know many multi-regional DVD players have problems playing them (that`s what RCE was created for anyway). Does the Abla 114 suffer problems? I know plenty of people here own the ALBA 114 so surely someone would know the answer.