AS FAR as my guts tells me, wala akong nalalaman na nagtitinda ng Region-free Blu Ray unit dito sa site or any physical stores sa 'Pinas. Parang nobody cares to address this untapped market, or possesses the ingenuity to modify the units. I tried to looked for a Region-free and I found two, the Momitsu 799 and the Sherwood Newcastle - but their video texture is not up to par with the velvety, cinematic confidence of a Sony, Panasonic or a Samsung (Samsung is the worst in reliability, andaming nagtitinda dito noong BDP5100 - sa nakabili na lets see if it'll goes past 90 days). When you shift the Momitsu and Sherwood to Region B, that means locking it up to the aforesaid Region, hence its all-Region but you need to alter it everytime you straddle between Regions A or B.
I also read from some moneyed chaps here that there are Oppo Blu Rays which has been modified to be Region-free. But Oppo only cares to sell in the Western hemisphere, 'ala itong pakialam sa Asia. Hence where do they scored their Region-free Oppos? From Singapore they took it. Region-free Oppo BD-93's at $1,050 Singapore dollar (or around P35,000). If you have no Singapore connection, you can't obtain it - unless you order direct in which case the Singaporean seller mails it through Fedex or UPS yata and down to the sweaty claws of Customs your Oppo goes through. Two weeks ago I checked this Singaporean seller and they're selling the model at S$950. Pero noong tingnan ko uli itinaas na ng tindero ang presyo.
You could also look over the auction sites. Hence I tried eBay.Ph and I found modified Oppo's there. Pero nasa Amerika yung tindero, and you need to pay through Paypal, and add around P5,000 for courier. Because it'll be shipped through the United States Parcel Service, dadaan ito sa Customs, hence you'll end up with very expensively-acquired all-Regioner Oppos. For me its not worth it - the trouble and the costs.
What then is the solution? The cheapest I could think is this: Have your Region A but take also a REgion B-locked unit (yung galing sa UK or Europe). Maybe Anya/Philip could help here...
