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Hello CW,
I have in hand a DVD titled Architects Herzog de Meuron (OCLC
233036642), and the region coding on the DVD says ALL in the little
globe icon, and NTSC below it. It's transcribed as such in the 538
field. Obviously, this DVD works just fine here in the US and our
patrons will have
Yes, a DVD can definitely be all regions and NTSC. The region coding and
video standards are completely separate issues. For example, Region 2 can be
either PAL (Europe) or NTSC (Japan). Region 0 is the same thing as all
regions. There are also many Region 0 PAL discs.
Hope this helps!
James
Dear Winona,
A region code is an artificial addition to a DVD's encoding during authoring
and compression to supposedly prevent DVDs from being sold outside their
territory. It was started by the Hollywood studios even though they don't
mind that about 10% of their DVD sales go overseas. When
