"Sachi Noma" <snoma01@bigfoot.com> said:

>I live in Japan (region 2). I want to purchase DVD in US (region 1).  Can
>someone suggest a way to view region 1 DVDs purchased in US on a region 1
>DVD machine in Japan? Thank you.


I know you don't want a new machine but...

Costco sells region free machines for less than
10,000 yen. The guy at www.theflyingpig.com will
do your shopping for you for 13,000
http://tinyurl.com/lgvc.