Rayj Posted December 5, 2018 Posted December 5, 2018 Hi, new here to this forum but not to Philippines. I have been about 10 times with my wife. For my next visit in Feb I’m thinking I’ll bring about 10 DVDs with player to watch while I am there. Does anyone else do this? What kind of streaming choices might I have? We are in the province between Tarlac and Cabanatuan. I don’t know the cellular service there. The wired internet service in the house is probably basic at best. Wouldn’t know if it’s 1Meg , 10 Meg, or .1Meg. Thanks in advance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham59 Posted December 5, 2018 Posted December 5, 2018 (edited) I bought a Panasonic DVD player that will play DVDs from all countries/systems. Works fine here. Can't advise on your particular internet connection though. I also have 2 Xboxes, which connect to the TV using HDMI, so system doesn't matter . (And they are connected to the internet). Using their wifi connection, I can also play anything from my laptop, throgh the Xbox and on to the big TV... as part of the same network. Edited December 5, 2018 by graham59 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayj Posted December 5, 2018 Author Posted December 5, 2018 Thank you. Now I see I have new things to try. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayj Posted December 5, 2018 Author Posted December 5, 2018 1 more thing. I’m looking for recommendations for noise cancelling headphones. A year ago, Bose was the name to own at about $300. If anyone has any thoughts to share on this, or alternatives, I would like to hear them. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huggybearman Posted December 5, 2018 Posted December 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Rayj said: 1 more thing. I’m looking for recommendations for noise cancelling headphones. A year ago, Bose was the name to own at about $300. If anyone has any thoughts to share on this, or alternatives, I would like to hear them. Thank you I have a set of Bose noice cancelling headphones. They work extremely well. If you haven't used any before they only really cut down any repetitive background noise. For example the constant noise of an aircraft interior. They are not much good at cancelling out sudden or non repetitive noise as they need to sample the noise and generate an opposite waveform, thereby cancelling it out. I find them brilliant for long flights. Ken 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayj Posted December 5, 2018 Author Posted December 5, 2018 Ok thanks. I had other people’s music in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffH Posted December 5, 2018 Posted December 5, 2018 (edited) I have a set of SONY noise cancelling head phones, I agree with Huggybearman in that they're good for cancelling that droning plane noise but don't really do anything for other non constant noise. Just a suggestion, try them on in a shop, if you're going to wear them for 8 hours plus it's really important that they're comfortable. Edited December 5, 2018 by GeoffH 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Old55 Posted December 6, 2018 Forum Support Posted December 6, 2018 Our family has Netflix but the internet is reasonably fast in their subdivision. At least until someone steals the cable running to to the subdivision, again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted December 6, 2018 Posted December 6, 2018 14 hours ago, graham59 said: I bought a Panasonic DVD player that will play DVDs from all countries/systems. Works fine here. Just pointing out for information - there is a simple way to remove region coding from DVD players that can be found online. It requires no messing with the guts, just entering a series of buttons on the remote. I've decoded several in the past with no problems. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tukaram (Tim) Posted December 6, 2018 Posted December 6, 2018 At the house we have a horrid connection. I pay for 5 mbps, but am lucky to get 2. But Netflix and YouTube stream fine. For movies it might be easier to just bring a laptop with some ripped DVD images. I have a Roku but most channels are geo-locked and my Globe modem does not allow VPN. Using my laptop I can Chromecast to the TV, though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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