My beloved Mighty Boosh DVDs can’t be played in the USA! WHAT CAN I DO!?! FYI I’ve had some wine and I can’t googly it properly

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Back in the day a good workaround was to go buy the cheapest off brand sketchy dvd player you could find. The manufacturers were so cheap they never implemented region locking.

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Aiwa is great for this. Often these are in thrift stores/goodwill for $5

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I wonder if you can specifically order a player offline for this

There’s a lot of sketchier things easily accessible on Amazon, a player for an outdated media format seems pretty tame in comparison

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Some regular ones also had a unlock code if you called the manufacturer and complained

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