don't be tempted to try and multi region it yourself if you don't buy it already mr.i bought a disc off a guy on ebay,the firmware update didn't work so stupid me tried it about 3 times,then the machine wouldn't respond,btw the best price for the 530 already multi region is £349 with free shipping & 3 year warranty,but make sure it has already had the firmware update done,as i bought a dvd player from them which wasn't multi regioned,fortunately i only had to input a hack code by the remote http://www.leconcepts.com/dvd_home.htm
Thank you to all for the info. The cheapest I have seen it is from Empire Direct at £319:82,(there is no mention of multi region) although they don't actually have them yet.