My son from out of town.. sent me this email requesting some advice and help.. and I thought  I'd post it here for my Invelos family to help us ( him) out .. Here is the email:

--I bought a Panasonic Blue Ray BD-DMP60 blue ray player because I was 
hoping it would play multi-regional discs. From what I was lead to 
understand this player could play PAL and NTSC.
It works great on normal DVD, and I suppose I would have bought a 
Blue Ray player eventually, but I was hoping in fact it would play 
some PAL DVD's I have of some UK and Australian films I have. I put 
in an old Two Ronnies DVD PAL DVD (or at least what I believe to be 
PAL) and the Blu Ray player said couldn't read the disc!

I thought from this description it would work:
http://www.world-import.com/Panasonic_DMP-
BD60_Region_Free_Blu_Ray_DVD_Player_110_volt.htm

Is this because I need to update the Firmware on the player? I've 
never done it before but maybe if I did would it work?

...I think my new Sharp Aquos TV is a multi system TV.

The Blue Ray play is still a decent purchase I guess for $199 plus 
the HDMI cable at the store and the guy gave it to me (which he said 
at cost) for $29.99. (Did he just tell me I was getting a deal?) You 
can certainly see the difference in viewing between the two cables in 
terms of picture quality and colour when watching a Blue Ray disc (I 
bought Gangs of New York)

Still, I want to find a way to watch these PAL DVD's. It sounds like 
this (see below) would be the way to go if this new Blue Ray player 
isn't going to do the job.

http://stores.ebay.com/DaaVeeDee/Our-Products-And-
Policies.html_W0QQsspagenameZSTOREQ3aPROMOBOXQ3aLINKSQQtZkm#regions

and specifically getting one of these Phillips DVP642 players just to 
keep for that purpose maybe? I've never bought anything off of Amazon 
though. but it seems the most cost effective route.

  I really wish it wasn't so hard to get around this PAL/NTSC stuff! 
I wish this new Blue Ray Player could do the job this cheap Philips 
item could do!

Is it indeed a firmware issue? Maybe i just need a more recent PAL 
disc to try... ????

Thankyou..

Get yourself a region-modded Oppo BDP-80 or -83) and you'll be fine.

You can get region mods for that one here,
here
and here (near the bottom).

Oppo can't afford to modify its players themselves, or it would cost them their Blu-ray license.

Nice page! 

I'll send you some more links for it soon, when I have more time.

That is where he was problemed with the description as well..
I sent him the info provided above .. and also noted that if he only has 'two' Pal discs,. amongs his many dozens and dozens of NTSC  , perhaps the best idea would be to to rip the 2 discs to .avi formats and and reburn the titles back to dvd r's ..

Quoting goblinsdoitall:

Quote:
What I don't understand is the idea of a "Region Free" player that doesn't support PAL.
Where is the sense in making it "Region Free" then??

There's a number of TVs and projectors out there that are dual system, so for those TVs there's no need to have a player that does the PAL->NTSC conversion.

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