I've owned a Toshiba 1200 for two years and was going to post it on ebay, when I was looking at the ads most of them said it was a region free player and can play both Pal and Ntsc dvds. I'm sure it never said anything in the manual and I never came across it before. Anyone have input on this. Do I need a firmware upgrade or is it straigh out of the box. I did some research, but couldn't find an answer, but came across this:

Workarounds

If your player fails the RCE check, it may well still be possible to play the disc by manually selecting Title 1/Chapter 1 once the RCE screen appears, or whatever Title/Chapter combination is appropriate to the particular movie. Note that presumably this is a short-term fix - all the studios need to do to disable this workaround is to author the RCE screen so that it locks out all user inputs, effectively stopping these workarounds from being utilized.
For Toshiba players
1. Press Memory
2. Highlight T with the arrow keys
3. Press 1
4. Press Play
5. Press Clear