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PAL DVD questions
BlazeFire
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So I mistakenly ordered a PAL DVD (of Nifes, for my mom for Christmas). We live in Canada. Now, the company I ordered it from sucks and long story short, shipped it the day after I emailed them and told them to cancel the order.
If I make a copy of the dvd and remove the region encoding, would it play on an NTSC tv/dvd player?
edit:
After some more searching, I've discovered this movie played at the Toronto Film Festival, yet I'm having an amazing difficulty in finding a Region 1 disc. So this makes my above question even more important. This may be my only option.
If I make a copy of the dvd and remove the region encoding, would it play on an NTSC tv/dvd player?
edit:
After some more searching, I've discovered this movie played at the Toronto Film Festival, yet I'm having an amazing difficulty in finding a Region 1 disc. So this makes my above question even more important. This may be my only option.
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Enter the model number of the player in google together with "region hack" or something like that and you should find what you're looking for. It might be as simple as pressing enter, menu and 0 simultaneaously on the remote to make the change. Keep in mind sometimes it will void the warranty although with the price of a new player being so low these days I don't see this as an obstacle.
In short, no. A PAL television signal is different than an NTSC signal and it has nothing to do with region protection. It should not be hard to find a DVD player that can output both PAL and NTSC. You can also by TVs that support both formats, but I doubt you relish the idea of buying a new TV just to watch this movie.
The other option is to watch it on a computer. Your computer should be able to play both PAL and NTSC DVDs, so once you remove the region protection you should be fine.
|EDIT| And if you use VLC Media Player to play the DVD on your computer, you won't have to worry about region protection or video format.
PAL and NTSC are different video formats altogether. a computer can compensate for it becasue the real difference is PAL has slightly higher resolution and a different framerate.
Do not, as many people do, confuse region coding with video format they have nothing to do with one another. region coding is an entirely artifical barrier that can be remvoed with software. Converting video is much more complicated.
This sounds like a solid option. Watching it on a computer wouldn't quite be feasible since its for my mother. Is there anything special to be done to get this to work? I usually back up DVDs with DVD shrink (-> .iso) then reburn it. Is there another process necessary?
and I'm kind of embarassed, I did know the difference between the framerates and resolutions and completely forgot.
I've never used DVD Shrink, but it appears that it does the video compression itself, so you may need to check the documentation to see if it will convert to NTSC. I also don't know what will happen if you burn it on a 9GB DVD, which shouldn't need any video compression.
edit: Assuming you have a region free player of course.
Didn't know that. Must be translating the video to NTSC but not able to change the audio to match it.