Re: dvd and region code.

Brett Ellis is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!

And so is everyone else!

Thanks for the replies, silly me thinking only of regional limitations when 
PAL/NTSC may be the stumbling block/. I have one sister with desktop macs and 
osx on a laptop.. I've played Australian DVDs at her house on the apple gear 
but not her DVD players. My other sister might or might not think of viewing 
on her PC but my father is a luddite who might just try the dvd player but 
that's as far as he'll go. 

I think I'll have a go at recording as NTSC


> Christian Lerrahn wrote:
> >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.
>
> 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
>
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