All the home lasers that I know of are diodes for some reason.

The issue is that machines for home use have much lower settings. They don't allow home machines to have very high settings due to potential damage they can cause.

i'm interested in this, been looking at the tria website - and it looks impressive
of course it would be a very low setting so would take a long time for results but since i have just sparser or finer areas left over from laser
(have had legs, arms, bikini, underarms, face, abdomen)
and just want to reduce the finer hairs that didn't respond - abdomen, upper thighs, face, upper arms)

If a more powerful laser didn't affect these hairs, this thing will definitely not do it either. You need electrolysis.

After seeing that the Tria wouldn't be available at their website until fall, I decided to get one from England. I tried it today on my bikini line(not the whole thing) and my armpits. On my bikini line, it felt like a rubber band snap and my armpits felt like a mild zap. The skin around the hair folicles is pink, now.

This was much less painful than my experience with a pro. When I went to the pro, I only had shedding in the burned areas which was about a third of my legs. It may not cause permanent damage, but if it gives results similar to waxing without the ingrown hairs, then I'll consider this money well spent.

I'll report back in a couple of weeks.

How much did you spend for this Tria if you don't mind saying so?? It will be great if you can disable the follicles for a certain period of time. Thanks for your report. It is so much more helpful to hear an actual report from someone who has tried something like this rather than debating back and forth as to whether the Tria is useful for hair control. We'll be thinking about you melissa, so come back in a couple of weeks! Thanks!

I paid $1200. In case anyone's interested, I got it from www.winhealth.co.uk
It only took a week to get here which is the fastest I've ever gotten anything from across the pond. I got the outlet adapter from Amazon but I probably could've gotten that locally. I have a multi-regional dvd player, so I'm not sure if the dvd would work in a North American dvd player. It's basically the same info as in the manual.

Since region codes are a scheme to make sure that both the release dates, and price structures of different areas are protected, I doubt an instruction manual would use a region code. The DVD is probably region free.

What region coding allows for is the theatrical release of a film in one country, of a movie that is already on DVD shelves in another, then later, it keeps people from buying ligitimate DVD's from one country at the closeout prices, while another country is still selling the same DVD in the "New Releases" section for top dollar. After all, anyone who knows anyone in South East Asia can get most movies for $5 or less.

Right, and as long as it's ntsc and not pal then people in North America can watch it.

Actually, many american DVD's will play a PAL DVD as well, but one may have some jumps in the picture here and there. Others won't play them at all.

The funny thing is, the older and the cheaper your DVD player, the MORE likely it will be to play a PAL in the US