Post by TrevPost by AlasdairI have ordered a DVD from the US of A and it is supposed to be in NTSC
format. Please, folks, how can I play this either on a DVD player or
on my computer? I am based in the UK and have UK equipment.
It all depends. Players often are multi format allowing you to
change between region 1 and 2 up to seven times then stick on the
last one used. likewise computer DVD's but here it is both the
software and the Physical drive. On that bases and if you have never
played a region 1 before you should be alright as long as you dont
keep playing it and reach the magic 7.
Slight correction, it's not the number of times a *given* region is
selected but the number of times the region is **changed** - on the
7th change the settings will become permanent, sort of some major OS
hacking or a HDD format and re-install...
Post by TrevThere is sometimes a cheat code you can tap in to your remote to
make the player ignore region codes These may be found at
www.vcdhelp.com search for your model
There is another problem, if a stand alone player (or the output from
a computer video card) is being feed to a TV, this is the fact that
the device needs to be able to cope with PAL60 [1] - rather that the
PAL standard of PAL50 [2], most modern should cope but other AV
equipment might not.
[1] 60 frames per second
[2] usually just referred to as PAL as 50fps is the standard, derived
from the power supply (mains) frequency of the recording equipment,
the UK being 50hz and the USA being 60hz
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