[muglo] Re: PAL system

Paul Region Coding and PAL/NTSC are different issues.  Region coding  
is method the studios devised in an attempt to protect distributors  
from competing with one another.  If a movie sells for $20 in Canada  
and $30 in Europe it could be profitable enough for people to carry  
suit cases filled with DVDs and sell them at the destination region  
coding is designed to prevent this.  In Europe there seem to be a lot  
of region free players so they can play disks from anywhere no matter  
their region coding.  The PAL/NTSC has to do with different technical  
standards for televisions in North America and other parts of the world.
If you really want to watch PAL movies on your computer there are  
software fixes out there to keep your drive from locking to one of  
the standards.


Gerhard


On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:

> As you all know i have had many questions about editing and creating a
> new DVD from it!  In my quest I have found out that if you use Mac DVD
> Player it will normally read N American Region (1) DVDs; however if  
> you
> put in a Region 2 DVD it will switch over for you to play it and will
> continue in that mode until you put in a Region 1 DVD; it will remain
> in this mode until you change back to Region 2.  BUT AND THIS IS
> IMPORTANT - you can only make 5 switches and then you are stuck with
> the last one!!  Thus if you want to check i f your DVD will play in
> Region 2 you can check it this way!
>
> I personally have not done this yet but plan to do so when someone is
> sending me a Region 2 DVD so hopefully it will work!!
>
> But remember this limit of 5 changes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Good luck!  And hope this helps you!!
>
> Paul



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