hey, im having a little problem. I recently recieved a few dvds from sumone who lives in greece. But they wont play on my home TV Dvd player, they will only play on my computer. Sumone told me that was because it was in "PAL" format, i was wondering..is there any program i can use 2 set 2 the format dvds in america are. Sorry if i cant make this more clear.

please help

Surely they have region free DVD players in America?

Anyway, this program will make any DVD work on a PC:

http://www.dvdidle.com/dv...n-free.htm

DVD shrink can create region free copies of dvd's - providing it can break the encryption on the dvd, if it can't you could use magic dvd copier instead, but I'd try shrink first as it's free (magic copier is a trial version which gives you 5 free goes, then you have to pay). You'll also need Nero to use dvd shirnk, if you don't have it just download (but do not run) the trial version of nero. Full details and more here ---> http://www.galway.cc/comp.../catid,40/

You have to separate between region problems and format problems.

Try this google search.

Save the hassle and just hook your PC upto your TV

just send them to me! I can enjoy PAL on my DVD player

ArielB said:

Not with DVD shrink you don't, it doesn't care what the format is.

AsylumUtopia said:

Yeah, DVD Shrink is great. You don't need Nero specifically though, you can just use any DVD burning software once DVD Shrink has done its job.

retina said:

It sure is great. You're right about Nero - I tend to forget that, because I normally use shrink to do the burning as well (and as it's really only a decryption tool it doesn't have it's own burning engine so it uses the Nero one).

AsylumUtopia said:

From their own forums:

Q: I know this question has been asked, but no specific answer has been given. A friend asked for my help in transfering/decoding or whatever the correct term is, a DVD he has in PAL format to NTSC format Please help!


A1: I'm afraid DVShrink can't do that. The closest it come is to making files region free, but you'd still need a PAL or NSTC player to watch the DVD's.

A2: You must use third party software (yor choice) to convert to the necessary format first, THEN run it through Shrink.

ArielB said:

I've ripped PAL Region 2 dvds and sent them to a friend in Canada who then watched them on her North American Region 1 player with no trouble at all. Don't they have NTSC in Canada?

retina said:

Yes they do, but many of the machines today are Multi-system and accept both PAL and NTSC, so that could be it.

ArielB said:

Not in Vancouver where she lives. There's only one store in the whole city that sells multiregion systems and i'm sure she didn't go there (I've tried to convince her to do that though). Oh well, who knows why these things work or why they don't work? It all seems like a great big lottery sometimes.

Or hang on, did you mean that there are systems that play NTSC and PAL but that don't play different regions? In that case I don't know. Could be that.
[Edited 10/5/07 8:50am]

ArielB said:

I stand corrected! I've used Shrink to copy NTSC discs (at least I think I have), so I just assumed Shrink was really clever and converted them to PAL. I guess my dvd player must be capable of playing both.

It's probably going to be easier to buy a multi-region dvd player. They are not expensive. I bought a cheap APEX about 8 years ago and it works great.

daPrettyman said:

TV has to be able to receive PAL nothing to do with dvd player that will output PAL/NTSC/SECAM - most tv's in europe are capabale of NTSC playback seems same cant be said for uSA with PAL. Multi-Region dvd's will just sort out playing all regions coded on discs - could look for a dvd player that has 'playback pal on ntsc tv' if this exists does the other way round !

kremlinshadow said:

That's an interesting username you've got. What's the story behind it? Russophobia?

You joined the org on my birthday by the way.