[Year 12 IPM] OT - Region 1 DVDs

[Keith Richardson]

Another thing to watch is in the area of PAL and NTSC.
Many of my DVD's are from Asia (and hence NTSC). My TV is an old one
(hence locked at only PAL).
With a Sony DVD player (new) running an NTSC DVD, the old TV (only
PAL)showed black and white only.
Solution - either buy a new TV that would automatically switch across
from PAL to accept and show correctly the NTSC signal,
- or swap DVD player to a Panasonic NV-VP 33, because it will
automatically convert the NTSC from the DVD into a PAL stream flowing
into the old TV.
I chose the second pathway, and voila, no problems. BTW, it will also
play all regions, so that problem solved too. Also it plays both DVD and
VCR.
Ciao, Keith





On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:00:04 +1100, "Mark Kelly"
<kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> said:
> If you're buying a new DVD player, consider getting one that plays PAL & 
> NTSC, DVD+R and DVD-R, MP3 files and DivX files and also has an SD card 
> slot.
> 
> Mine is an LG model, it's it was pretty cheap too.
> 
> I can get 18 hours of Iron Chef onto a single-layer DVD - just the thing 
> during boring extras!
> 
> Oh, and spend 2 minutes to Google for the region hack.  You just enter a 
> magic number (humorously, it's 314159) with the remote control to 
> permanently make DVDs from all regions playable.  Bliss!
> 
> Nikita Dulics wrote:
> > If your Region 1 DVD won't play on your Region 4 Computer DVD drive you 
> > could try a software called "DVD Genie" to change your drive to Region 
> > Free. DVD Genie is a versatile region selector and tweak utility for 
> > various PC-DVD -players. Remember though that you can only change your 
> > drive's region 5 times. The last change will stay that way for ever. 
> > There is some info about it at;
> > http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvd_genie.cfm
> > 
> > Good luck
> > 
> > Nikita Dulics
> > Stotts College
> > 43-53 Elizabeth St
> > Melbourne VIC 3000
> > ph. 9629 9966
> > 
> > */"Bricks J. Winzer" <sarcophagus13 at iprimus.com.au>/* wrote:
> > 
> >     It will play only on a so-called region-free player. I've seen a few
> >     players labelled as such which don't work with many (or any) foreign
> >     discs.
> > 
> >     Australia is Region 4 which corresponds to the PAL format down here;
> >     Region
> >     1 is the USA in NTSC.
> > 
> >     Computers with DVD drives can usually play other regions no problem,
> >     but it
> >     depends on the player software. My friend found that his player
> >     would only
> >     let him change the region a fixed number of times. Others find they can
> >     change it at will.
> > 
> >     B.J.
> > 
> >     Jill Renison wrote:
> >      > Greetings all
> >      > If I buy a DVD from Amazon that is coded Region 1, will I be able to
> >      > play it here? As far as I know it does not have the extra
> >     encoding (have
> >      > forgotten the name of the technology). It's /The Merchant of Venice/
> >      > with Al Pacino, which hasn't been released here as far as I know,
> >     but
> >      > would be really useful for Yr 10 English at our school.
> >      > Cheers
> >      > Jill
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark Kelly
> Manager - Information Systems
> McKinnon Secondary College
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Keith Richardson
Leibler Yavneh College
Elsternwick Ph (03)9528 4911
keithcr at fastmail.fm