Review by S. Kurscheid for NEW JVC XVBP11 All Multi Region Code Free DVD BLU RAY Player. Plays all region DVD 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 PAL or NTSC and Zone A Blu Rays. (Free HDMI Cable)
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Quite simply does exactly what the technical specifications promise. Ideal for anyone who has an international DVD collection. Upscaling of DVDs looks good to me. Startup time of the player is acceptable – you won’t be waiting for the firmware to load. Lack of BluRay 2.1 might be a downside for some enthusiasts, but personally I do not care much about “interactive” or online features of BluRays…

Review by M. Whitaker for NEW JVC XVBP11 All Multi Region Code Free DVD BLU RAY Player. Plays all region DVD 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 PAL or NTSC and Zone A Blu Rays. (Free HDMI Cable)
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I’ve lately been seeing some Region 2 DVD’s which I have thoroughly enjoyed and wanted to add them to my collection; as such I needed to find a player that would be region free and play PAL/NTSC formats without the need of an additional converter box. This machine works beautifully for almost all my region 1 and 2 DVD’s; I have noticed some problems with some of my Hayao Miyazaki collection DVD’s distributed by Disney, I’m not sure why the menus are not wanting to show but the default is always play and they do play just fine. While I haven’t seen this advertised as having an HDTV upconverter it would appear that it does from the difference in quality (I have a couple of high-end DVD recorder/players which don’t look quite as good). One thing to be aware of is that the HDMI cable may not work with all televisions; my Samsung HDTV has a DVI port for high definition; I had to try several different means of connecting the cable (the HDMI to DVI adapter that I purchased at Radio Shack wouldn’t work, I am guessing there was never a “standard” DVI port). I eventually ordered from Amazon the “AmazonBasics HDMI to DVI Adapter Cable (9.8 Feet / 3.0 Meters)” and this worked perfectly.

Review by R. A. Wagner for NEW JVC XVBP11 All Multi Region Code Free DVD BLU RAY Player. Plays all region DVD 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 PAL or NTSC and Zone A Blu Rays. (Free HDMI Cable)
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I’ve owned the JVC XBP11 for a few weeks now. The Blu-Ray playback is good and my European DVDs play on it with no issues. An interesting thing I discovered with this unit is with one particular NTSC Region 1 DVD I own called Serenity. . .It will NOT play on it. The error states that this DVD is designed to play on Region 1 players and doesn’t support modified players. What’s odd is that I’ve owned this DVD for a number of years and it worked fine on my older, modified JVC, Samsung, and Toshiba region free DVD players. But this new player seems to be reading into some new information on the DVD that my others did not. At this point, I have no idea how many other DVDs I may have in my collection that aren’t compatible with this unit and I’m not feeling great about the situation. Otherwise, I’m very happy with the quality of the playback. For the price, I’ll keep the unit regardless.