LIDL DVD player - multi-region?

Omega

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on offer from Thu 30 Nov..... is it multi-region?
 
Just wondering if you went ahead and bought it? Was it region free? I bought one in Aldi a few weeks ago but it was only region 1...
 
not sure about this particular model, but in my experience the cheaper DVD players usually ARE reigon free. It costs manufacturers to encode DVD players to be specifically region 1 or 2 or whatever, so the cheap ones that you pick up for 30 or 40 euros generally are made at a very low cost and will not be region specific.
 
If they're not region free out of the box then there's usually some hack (often a particular combination of remote control key presses) to make them so. If you can't find the hack for your particular make/model (especially for generic cheapo makes/models) then you might need to open it up and see what chipset is used and see if you can find a chipset specific hack.