MY video rentals stores carry lot of region 1 movies but i cant play them on PS2.."All region" movies work fine but why specific region coded movies cant work?
any workaround without spending $?
Your PS2 is a Jpn or Asian set? Then like that cannot play DVDs since they are Region 2.
Advice, don't play DVD movies on your PS2. It'll spoil the lens very fast.
Go spend another 140 dollars, buy the sony DVP-NS52p
It plays DIVX and mp3s jpegs, with ur dvds and vcds.
Worth the money i say, cos i download lots of anime encoded in divx.