Some movies are only available in European Region 2. This Tojock unit plays them without complaint. Last night, we watched Alex Guiness in “Our Man In Havana”. Excellent film; it cost me $10 new, shipped from the UK. There are a few US Region 1 coded “Our Man …” DVDs around; Amazon sells one for $111.41 with shipping. So by buying this projector, I saved $73, and can watch other European movies (Velt Helmer’s “Baikonur” is a favorite).I use it to feed RCA-plug composite video to a professional InFocus computer projector, so I don’t know how it will work with other displays. The Tojock onscreen menu can select many different video formats, all work with the InFocus; your mileage my vary.Downside – the Tojock had some problems with an American Region 1 DVD; the extras on the restored Hitchcock “Vertigo”. It mixed up the selections on some of the extra segments. The same DVD works fine on my Panasonic DVD player. That ancient Region1-only player rejects disks for other regions, and has problems with scratches; I’ll try more scratched disks on the Tojock.The Tojock remote buttons are high contrast and easily viewed, but track selection can be strange. The control buttons on the unit itself are black on black, difficult in a well lit room and impossible in a dim one. The display is four digits and TINY, so it won’t display running time properly on a more-than-100-minute DVD.So, the Tojock is inexpensive, and won’t entirely replace my trusty old Panasonic, but it will expand the world of videos I can watch. I will borrow a few scratched Hindi movies from the library and see how those work with the Tojock – other borrowers seem to use those DVDs as frisbees on gravel driveways. [...]
