Space Ritual London 25 Feb, 2011

[Edmund Clout]

I was able to turn my £30 Philips DVD player into a multiregional one by entering a secret engineers code I got by searching that thar internet. E.g. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dvd+multiregion+codes&hl=en
 
Might not help with the NTSC/PAL thing though.
 
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:44:45 -0500
> From: cea at CARLAZ.COM
> Subject: Re: Space Ritual London 25 Feb, 2011
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> 
> On 28 Feb 2011, at 06:22 , Elipxr5 wrote:
> > Hi. This is a Pal Region Free DVD. It will not play on most NTSC DVD players or NTSC TVs. I don't think this will play for Mike anywhere but on his computer with his set up. I am in the states and the DVD would not play over my equipment, but I ripped myself an NTSC burn from the DVD using Mac the ripper software, and it came out perfectly. You would probably need a multi standard player or the ability to burn an NTSC copy on a computer to really enjoy this on a full size monitor in the U.S. Its well worth it though. 
> 
> Ah, it had not occurred to me that, of course, I have always had multi-region DVD players, and it is possible that DVD players that are region-locked may also have their PAL v NTSC decoding software locked. (I am pretty sure that is all handled in software; I can't imagine DVD-player manufacturers bucking the extra expense of producing models with different hardware!)
> 
> Perhaps the best I can do is confirm that my multi-region DVD players in both the UK (PAL, Region 2) and South America (NTSC, Region 4) have happily played my DVDs regardless of their various countries of origin.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
> PS - I have also sometimes done rips for use on non-multi-region machines using Mac the Ripper, reburning with Toast, and that works fine, too.
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> Carl Edlund Anderson
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