On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 03:08 PM, Marta Edie inquired: > > > Also, as I understand it : if I burn a DVD here, it is automatically > > burned for our region which is region1 I believe. If I want someone to > > play it in Europe, which I believe is region2, can I do that? > > Any software you're likely to use (iDVD, Toast) will create region-free > DVDs. It's only the commercial DVDs that have region codes. Out of interest, which law is being broken if someone makes a backup copy of a DVD but the backup is regionless. Is it just DMCA, which only targets the people who create the software that does the breaking? I can honestly ask this question as I've been too lazy to put together the various software bits I've heard will let me do this :) > Most DVD players sold in Europe will play both NTSC and PAL disks on a > PAL TV, although the NTSC disks don't look as good because of the I was looking into this a while back. I think the deal is that most UK [and I presume European] TVs will do the NTSC rehandling on the fly. The DVDs don't have to worry about it I think. > (3) Buy a cheap Apex DVD player with the "secret" key codes to turn off > the region coding. This is what I did. (You can also turn off the > MacroVision copy prevention fuzzing with a "secret" key code, in order > to make decent quality tapes of commercial DVDs.) Do you have the model numbers? I'm attempting to watch Region 2 DVDs in the US but no one local has a clue about a dvd player that will show them. The best-buy assistants didn't even know what a region was :) Plus the US tv's won't do PAL->NTSC, so even if I buy a DVD in the UK and bring it over here, run it on through a travel adaptor, it would not display the picture correctly. The only information I've found on this in the US has been on sites importing French porn or Japanese anime, neither of which are sites I want to buy a DVD player from. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
