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Excellent and accurate summary of the issues and some good sites to
buy from.  Many thanks indeed.

Hi, Cobrien

Many thanks for your informative and timely answer: it was just what I
needed before I took my daughter, Samantha, to Richer Sounds to buy
her a Christmas present.

Before you provided the insight, I was unaware of RCE but the
assistant-manager who served me did, and she also convinced me of the
merits of buying a multi-region player.

I now have complete peace of mind as well as a very happy daughter.

Kindest regards

Bryan

good resources - you helped me a lot, placed an order for the key-chain alarm!

very useful--would just have liked a list of possible products to look
for at the pharmacy to give me a head start before hitting the
shelves.

Thank-you.

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A good selection of responses, although I'd hope to find some more
professional restaurant reviews or choices ... Zagat and Epinions are
both ratings by the public, not professionals.  If NY Times, NY
Magazine or others have good reviews and choices, it would add much
value to this response.  Thanks

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short informative answer.

I compliment the researchers on all their efforts to provide me with
an answer. The final suggestion was not to my taste, so ultimately
while I enjoyed the experience of this Google Answer thread it did not
provide me with a solution - maybe thats just a facet of the
difference between asking a question that has a definitive answer to
one that has a subjective element. So I reluctantly feel I have no
choice than to rate the answer as only 2 stars as it did not solve my
requirement. Thank you all for your comments.

I thought the answer was comprehensive, logically structured and well
answered. You also found a good deal of useful information in just a
couple of hours. Overall, a very good response.

In regards answer I say I could  not have expected any better(and in
fact did not expect as much) as answer was more than comprehensive and
gave me a lot of different options to follow up at different websites.
Certainly a credit to the searchers abilities, who obviously put a
decent amount of time and effort in.  Also I should add that some
beautiful comments were added first of all by  Weisstho which was very
uplifting(thanks Weisstho) then, on a similar theme,  by other notable
GA people such as Missy the Domestic Engineer and Chromedome both of
whom continued with their trademark quality respones
again with touching and uplifting comments.  Once again special thanks
to cobrien for terrific job

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Fantastic. Some useful fast!

Great information.  Saved me a ton of time.

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