I used to have a Daewoo 9000N, it was about a year old, and did everything it should have except every once in a while it would get a series of blue lines accross the screen which wouldn't go away until you paueed and restarted it. It didn't happen often enough for me to worry about it too much. I'd buy another one if it had discrete codes and was supported by universal remotes.

Here in the US, very few people worry about dvd regions. It's a big place, and most things are available. The ones that are well known for being hackable are the cheap chinese DVD players. Our electronic retailers are usualy large chains, so they'd be fairly easy to target it they started advertising region free dvd players.

Matthew