I'm brand new here. I have several region free DVDs that my 3 1/2 year old RCA RC5220P DVD player can't read. My booklet says the player only plays region 1 and even says it won't play CDRs. The DVDs (concert bootlegs) aren't silver but colors. I don't know if they're VCDs, DVDr, or whatever. My question is what DVD player can I get that will play them? My DVD player was cleaned, the discs are spotless.

To see a list of DVD players that play VCD, SVCD...etc, go to:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers

I would recommend getting an APEX DVD player. These guys are cheap and play almost anything.

Take Care,
-gammer

You need to find out what kind of discs you have. Windows can give the size of disc, which would help. Anything less than 1 GB is CD-R of some type. Anything greater is DVD. You might have DVD-R or DVD+R. Older players such as yours are known for having problems with burnable DVD.

Search on player capabilities on dvdrhelp.com.
I found your player here:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=330&Search=Search&#comments

Seems to have problems with burned CD discs but it may be able to play burned DVD discs. It may read certain brands of CD-RW. Can you play your disc in a computer? If it's a CD-R then try copy it to CD-RW.