NTSC Encoding

[Viki]

If I buy a DVD that has that ^ (in title), it won't work on my DVD players, since I live in the UK, but my computer would play it, right?

[TechZ]

Its more to do with REGION encoding. Check what region the dvd box has on it, and compare that with your DVD player.

Even PC DVD drives will accept only 5 changes of the drives Region setting.

NTSC DVD's are usually for non-europe regions, so that maybe why you cannot play it on your DVD player.

[Viki]

Yeah, I know it won't work on my regular dvd players, but would it work on my PC? Or, is it quite possible?

[Loopy]

What TechZ's telling you is that Dvd players/drives all have a region code that can only be changed a certain number of times. You will be able to play the dvd in your computer If you have any region changes left(you can usually tell if you have any region changes left in windows by going your windows control panel and opening your system info/device manager then opening the properties to your Dvd drive)If you use a Dvd that's got a NTSC (american code) in a PAL(Europes system) it would count as one of those 5 changes and changing back to PAL would count as another change(2) and so on and so on. It would be preferable to play DVD'S meant for your region otherwise after a certain number of changes on the last change your DVD drive would be locked to the last region you set. If I need to clarify anything let me know.

[confus-ed]

What TechZ's telling you is that Dvd players/drives all have a region code that can only be changed a certain number of times..

Quite right .. but errrr completely wrong !

Many units are now 'region free' - it'd depend where you live, in Europe (more correctly in the EU) - region locking is quite rightly considered a restriction of free trade & it is infact illegal to sell region locked disks, but any disk imported from outside the region would be exempt from that, as is any player, as its considered a case of 'buyer beware' ...

As this site is legally obliged to follow the rules enforeable in the States, all I can really say without getting myself into too much trouble (even though it'd be perfectly ok for me to actually do it, as I'm in the EU) is that you can 'get around' this via software

[Loopy]

Quite right .. but errrr completely wrong !

Many units are now 'region free' - it'd depend where you live, in Europe (more correctly in the EU) - region locking is quite rightly considered a restriction of free trade & it is infact illegal to sell region locked disks, but any disk imported from outside the region would be exempt from that, as is any player, as its considered a case of 'buyer beware' ...

As this site is legally obliged to follow the rules enforeable in the States, all I can really say without getting myself into too much trouble (even though it'd be perfectly ok for me to actually do it, as I'm in the EU) is that you can 'get around' this via software

Wow confus-ed I had no clue! IMHO Region codes are just a resritction on information, just like I have read that it can take years for an American show to cross the pond and be broadcast in europe(and vice-versa) I think tv and whatnot are to restrictive to culture, I mean sometimes you want to know and see what things are like in other countries for example, what shows they watch, music they listen to etc.