Hi david (my name is dave too

), Welcome to the forums & i hope you find some bargains to suit you. If you haven't bought any blu rays yet then i would recommend looking at amazon's 3 for 2 deal when you want to get some blu rays.
If your looking for a multi region blu ray player then the i know sony bdp s350 & sony bdp s550 can be made multi regional using a one for all remote (i know as i've done it myself & i still have the remote which you can borrow if you want). That is making a blu ray player multi regional for dvd playback, I'm 99% sure you can't make any blu ray player multi regional for blu rays yet (although approx 65% - 70% of US blu rays are region free anyway)