Re: dvd and region code.

Christian Lerrahn wrote:

>Hi Rick,
>hi Andrew,
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>>Rick Miles wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>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.
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>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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I'm not sure about region settings but when you copy it, do it in ntsc 
format just to be sure.. there are progs around that can do this..

Brett