Re: dvd and region code.

Hi Rick,
hi Andrew,
> Rick Miles wrote:
> >> However I do not know much about regional settings. How can I check
> >> to see if and or what the regional setting of this dvd is? and if it
> >> has no settings can it be read by dvd players with just the US
> >> regional setting?
> 
> I would suggest that you only have to worry about region coding on 
> commercial DVDs; some are region free, but most are not.  Anything created 
> non-commercially should be fine to play anywhere.

This is not 100% correct. With DVDs you still have PAL and NTSC encoding
(720 x 576 pixels (PAL DVDs), or 720 x 480 pixels (NTSC DVDs)) and most
players will only play one of them. There are players that will convert
PAL to NTSC/NTSC to PAL but it's hard to find out if there's such a
converter in your DVD player because manufacturers are (at least in many
countries) legally not allowed to include this in the technical
specifications. As the US use NTSC but Australia uses PAL, you will most
likely run into problems. However, in the US you can still view these
DVDs on a comnputer I think.

Christian

P.S.: There are lists on the internet where you can checl if your DVD
player has a PAL<->NTSC converter.

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