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Your DVD manual will tell you what region your machine is. Manymachines also have a region logo at the back. If your DVD playeris multi-zone, congratulations, it will play all discs from allcountries. Multi-zone is also known as "region zero".
PAL-NTSC
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There are 2 compatibility issues to consider with DVD discs thatyou obtain from overseas. Both conditions need to be satisfiedfor the disc to play !
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OTHER DEVICES
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Interestingly it is not commonly known that the PAL-NTSC issuedoes not apply at all to computers. This is because your monitoris not a television set and your video card sends digitalsignals, not PAL or NTSC signals.
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BYPASSING THE REGION LOCKING
THE PAL-NTSC issue is really only an issue for USA and Canadacustomers. Certain brands of TV set and DVD players within theUSA do not handle PAL signals at all, while others handle itbadly (eg black and white image).
WHY THIS DVD WON'T PLAY IN MY MACHINE ?
The first is REGIONS (or zones).
But that DVD movie you bought on the internet from overseasabsolutely refuses to play. With or without an accompanyingerror message on the TV screen , you wonder whether you havejust wasted good money.
Practically all PAL and NTSC DVD's will play fine throughoutAustralia, UK and Europe. This is because the DVD's and TV setssold throughout these countries are dual PAL and NTSC compatible.
But who to blame ? Maybe the disc itself was faulty ? Perhapsthe salesman lied about what the machine could do ?
The SECOND compatibility issue with DVD's is the TV signal.
They're supposed to play EVERYTHING! The salesman and thecatalogue promised you that THIS machine can handle DVD's, CD's,MP3's, JPG's VCD, CD-R's, etc etc etc.
This results in the bizarre situation where you can buy aChinese- made $40 DVD player which will not only play allforeign DVD's, but has just as many functions and capabilitiesas a $300 big brand machine. Of course, the big-brand machineshave better warranty support and superior build-quality andcomponents, so I'm certainly not saying their price isunreasonable, just be aware that paying out top dollar for amachine does not necessarily mean it can play foreign discs.
There is an important exception to this rule - some DVD discsare released as "region zero" or "region-free"or "all-regions".These DVD's will play fine in any [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] region-locked machine.
If your player or TV set are locked to NTSC only, they cannot bechanged to PAL.
REGIONS
However, if your machine is region locked,it can ONLY play discswith that particular region code. If the regions don't match,the disc won't play. The most common locked regions are region 1(USA), region 2 (UK- Europe) and region 4 (Australia). I shouldemphasise here that this issue only applies to foreign discs.The retailers in your country will only sell DVD's in your localregion designation.
Japan and the USA use NTSC signals. The PAL system is used byAustralia, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the UK and Europe. These signals were decided upon bygovernments 50 years ago.
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WHAT KIND OF MACHINE WILL PLAY FOREIGN DISCS ?
PAL and NTSC are 2 types of TV signal.
Check your manuals for both your TV set and DVD player toconfirm they mention PAL. If you don't have the manual, checkthe onscreen menus.
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