>I just found out that I can't play German bought DVD movies on my home DVD >player. I assume it is because of the PAL/NTSC format difference. 2 >questions: > >1) would my Pismo DVD player (or any other laptop) be able to play >European-market DVD's
DVD's are generally 'region encoded' which means you have region 2 disks (Europe) and are trying to play them in a region 1 player (US). Most all DVD home units can handle PAL vs NTSC, my unit for example with output either NTSC or PAL for all movies or just pass through the format the movie is in for those with multi-format TVs. There are also 'hacks' out there which will remove or modify the region encoding of your home player to enable you to watch region 2 (or other region) DVDs on your player. How well the hack works varies widely between brands and models of players. I have such a hack installed on one of my home players to let me watch the European DVDs I own. >2) would my Pismo be able to play European home recorded DVD's? I don't know about the Pismo specifically, but Apple's DVD player will let you change the region up to 5 times but you're stuck with whatever region was last set. So this really isn't an optimal solution for you. The PAL vs NTSC thing isn't an issue with computer playback. If you have a superdrive and the disk is < 4.7G, you can use 0SEx (that's a zero, not the letter 'o') and have it product a Toast compatible DVD image that has the region encoding removed that you can then burn. Without the superdrive, or if the DVD is bigger, you're stuck with less elegant solutions involving either re-encoding or recording the DVD. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
