First and foremost, *most* (not all, but most) electronics nowadays are dual voltage. You don't need an actual converter, just a simple plug you can put the US-sized plug into, which will go into the wall. If you've got a laptop, check on that large box on the cord unit for the voltage. That setup is what I'm using as we speak.
Another option is to ring Toshiba or whoever and purchase a different cord with the proper plug. Depends on what you want to do. You can spend $5 and get a plug, or roughly $100 and not have to carry the plug. Frankly the plug works fine, though.
Second off, you can find a region-free MULTI-VOLTAGE (sorry, we have no bold, you NEED to check for this feature) DVD player quite easily on the Internet. Just do a Google for "region-free multi-voltage DVD player". There are a number of sites out there. If it does not specifically say dual voltage (they specify usually) on the description, I wouldn't buy it.
Mine is a Toshiba SD-K670 player. It is lower end (with shorter life on electronics anymore, no sense in spending a lot of money on something that will crap out in 3 years' time), and I purchased it from etronics.com. The player was, I believe, $90. The shipping was another $17 or so via UPS to me in the US. You do not need a code to unlock the player; it is already set up as region-free. I tried DVDs from Regions 1, 2, and 3--all fine. My recorded DVDs also work fine. http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=tossdk670
Now. If you get this player, and open it up, you may notice the plug is not the standard US two-pin or three-pin with grounder. The box will also say "region 2", as will the instructions. Don't worry. I happened to have a plug for North America, so I put the cord in and tried in the States. It worked fine. It also works fine here in Doha. For my purposes, it's a good player.
I know you asked Tootsie, but let me jump in.
First and foremost, *most* (not all, but most) electronics nowadays are dual voltage. You don't need an actual converter, just a simple plug you can put the US-sized plug into, which will go into the wall. If you've got a laptop, check on that large box on the cord unit for the voltage. That setup is what I'm using as we speak.
Another option is to ring Toshiba or whoever and purchase a different cord with the proper plug. Depends on what you want to do. You can spend $5 and get a plug, or roughly $100 and not have to carry the plug. Frankly the plug works fine, though.
Second off, you can find a region-free MULTI-VOLTAGE (sorry, we have no bold, you NEED to check for this feature) DVD player quite easily on the Internet. Just do a Google for "region-free multi-voltage DVD player". There are a number of sites out there. If it does not specifically say dual voltage (they specify usually) on the description, I wouldn't buy it.
Mine is a Toshiba SD-K670 player. It is lower end (with shorter life on electronics anymore, no sense in spending a lot of money on something that will crap out in 3 years' time), and I purchased it from etronics.com. The player was, I believe, $90. The shipping was another $17 or so via UPS to me in the US. You do not need a code to unlock the player; it is already set up as region-free. I tried DVDs from Regions 1, 2, and 3--all fine. My recorded DVDs also work fine.
http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=tossdk670
Now. If you get this player, and open it up, you may notice the plug is not the standard US two-pin or three-pin with grounder. The box will also say "region 2", as will the instructions. Don't worry. I happened to have a plug for North America, so I put the cord in and tried in the States. It worked fine. It also works fine here in Doha. For my purposes, it's a good player.