Mac laptops do have a program that only allows you to change the PAL/NTSC system five or six times before it locks. However, everybody I know downloads the free VLC system and bypasses the Mac program provided for playing DVDs altogether.
Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: [email protected] Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.portraitofjason.com, www.shirleyclarkefilms.com , Support "Milestone Film" on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! See the website: Association of Moving Image Archivists<http://www.amianet.org/> and like them on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-Moving-Image-Archivists/86854559717> AMIA 2013 Conference, Richmond, Virginia, November 5-9!<http://www.amianet.org/> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Shoaf,Judith P <[email protected]> wrote: > I should add to this that I have never heard of a computer DVD drive > locking on a system (PAL/NTSC) the way they lock on regions after a few > switches. The ability to play the signal correctly is built is, I thought. > Has anyone else heard of this? --Judy > > -----Original Message----- > > I just want to add my experience with this problem I'm distributing a > French film "Murder of a Hatmaker" > I received from the director DVDs with notice that they are Multi-zone, I > sold some in USA to university libraries, I got complaints that the NTSC > players can't read the DVD, I got our studio to transform to NTSC and I > resent those copies to the university libraries. > I know there was no problem to play the DVD on a computer, as the EMRO > reviewer wrote the review after viewing the original multi-zone DVD on the > comp, cheers Nahum Laufer http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php > http://docsforeducation.com/ > Sales > Docs for Education > Erez Laufer Films > Holland st 10 > Afulla 18371 > Israel > > > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:20:30 +0000 > From: Deg Farrelly <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Videolib] PAL and SECAM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > > <dac3018aad33dc41b8dca4808569d8fb243ff...@exmbt06.asurite.ad.asu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Thanx, Judy > > I guess I missed the part of the conversation about the video being in VHS. > Completely off my radar now. > > Even if a computer DVD drive will play a PAL DVD, I have heard that after > X number of uses the drive will lock onto the non-NTSC standard and will > thereafter play ONLY that standard. > > Of so I have heard. > > -deg > > > ******************** > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as > an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as > an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. >
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
