Dambuster

I have a PAL region 2 dvd player and PAL tv, I rather fancy a copy of 'Tunes of Glory' which I have seen as a region 0, NTSC disc. Will my set-up play the disc correctly I wonder? I would welcome any thoughts.Thanks

.. the only villain is the sea,The Cruel Sea, that man, and war, have made even more brutal..

Dambuster

Re the above I have dug out the tv manual and under the spec' it says
' Colour System PAL, NTSC 3.58,4.43(only video in), MPEG-2 MP@ML'

Does that throw any more light on the subject at all please?
Thanks from a somewhat confused film fan.

.. the only villain is the sea,The Cruel Sea, that man, and war, have made even more brutal..

ChristineCB

There are no assurances. "Try it and see" is the only way - someone else's working solution may be different from yours, so I think the best suggestion is "try it". And just because one works (or fails), theren's no assurance for the next time.

Even if you had a Region-1 (North American) DVD and used some Copy-DVD type of software to produce your own DVD-R, there's no assurance that the Region-0 DVD-R you'd be getting would work any better (or worse).

If you have a computer with a DVD Burner, however, there's a far greater chance you can assume, "At least my computer can work with the DVD, and from there, maybe I can produce a TV Player's DVD on my own."

Of course, you can follow my example: "Blame Steve for everything". No, it doesn't really help either.

Steve Crook

It may not help, but quite a few people seem to adopt it
I don't mind, it's like water off a duck's back

Steve

merryowen

You shouldn't have any problems. Whenever I get a chance I buy DVDs from the US because American movies tend to have less cuts. I remove the region coding but the DVD are still set to NTSC. Even so they still run fine on my PAL player.

It doesn't always work the other way. Most modern NTSC players will run PAL but not all.

Dambuster

Thanks for the replies. I will do a bit more research and post the result!

.. the only villain is the sea,The Cruel Sea, that man, and war, have made even more brutal..

Norma Wisdom

If you are prepared to spend just under £50 you can assure yourself of being able to play all regions with a Philips HDMI DVD player. I got mine from Laskys - who are pretty hard to beat pricewise and in terms of fast delivery.

PHILIPS DVP5960/05 DVD PLAYER WITH HDMI AND USB CONNECTION from Laskys

I get nearly all my DVDs from Australia (R4) and the USA + Canada (R1) and this little beauty plays them all with no trouble - and it also has some neat extra features which you will find invaluable as time goes on.

If you get one - the instructions still maintain that it is simply for your region (2) but Philips supply many regions with exactly the same equipment! You simply programme it to '0' when you are setting it up.
If you can't splash the cash - there are many sites offering free information on hacking regional coding. But lets face it most modern equipment ( Panasonic DVDRs excepted) accepts DVDs from all over the world with little trouble.
If your equipment is a little 'elderly' but there is something you love which is only available in the 'wrong' region (eg, 1) I would suggest backing it up on a PC which will then render the copy you make 'region free'.
Hope this ramble helps a bit - GOOD LUCK

Norma Wisdom

Oh and the Pal/ NTSC thing also becomes irrelevant with the Philips machine/ making backups on PC. Even NTSC tapes from the States have been playable on 'British' gear for several years!

Wolfgang

I think most TVs these days are capable of receiving NTSC signal. If your tv has been bought in last 5 years I would say it is almost certain that you can watch NTSC DVDs on it. It is much easier for our superior PAL format to drop down to NTSC's lower standards, but much more difficult for NTSC to come up to ours - that is why many American DVD players generally are not mulit-region because their TV's will not able to cope with superior European coding format.