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DOES ANY ONE KNOW OF A REGION HACK FOR THIS WEE BEASTY....TA

I`ve tried to buy the Alba 103, which is supposed to play region 1 from the box, from Argos, but their stores appear to have replaced very them very quickly with the Bush 2011. They appear to be EXACTLY the same - the only difference is the name and the colour of the casing. The specification, components and remote are all identical. Have you tried a region 1 disc in your Bush? If not, I`m taking mine back - it`s advertised by Argos as being the same as the Alba, but if it can`t play region 1 it`s hardly the same. I`ve got region 1 discs on order but they haven`t arrived yet, so I can`t tell!

P.S. You have probably tried this already but in the instruction manual for the 2011 on page 21 under the `Preferences` heading there is a `COUNTRY/REGION selection and a list of seven countries, including region 1 and region 2 countries. If this option is selected to `USA` and a region 1 disc is inserted and it dosen`t work, this is surely very misleading as the manual explicitly states that the region can be changed under the Preferences menu. There is another thread on the Hacks Forum here about the Alba 103 which has exactly the same setup as the Bush - but for the Alba changing the Region Preference does not seem to work. Are we being ripped off left/right/centre methinks?

P.P.S :- the thread for the Alba 103 thread is http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=176&Thread=6322&Index=7726