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rabott13
07-11-2008, 08:33 AM
theres a few DVD's i want to get but they were only released in austrailia on PAL format. i know they wont work on any dvd player i have at home, but would i be able to take it to my computer and upload it. or is it possible to buy something so i could store it a transport it to a NTSC. i plan on buying the DVD from ebay since i couldn't even torrent all but one episode
nice keetee
07-12-2008, 11:28 PM
probably available but i defer to more knowledgeable folk ah all the formats!
NTSC is normally a color coding format, and it doesn't apply to DVDs at all since the DVD stores MPEG files. The "trace" of NTSC left is that the picture format, the resolution is slightly different, but that's since, the player adjusts that for you.
What the piggy movie companies really mean with "PAL" and "NTSC" on DVDs is region 1, region 2 or region 3, which is a lock that prevents dumb people from playing one region's DVD on a different region's player.
I recommend that you either get a region-free player, or see that you get one that can be patched to be region-free, and then you don't have a problem.
rabott13
07-15-2008, 01:22 PM
Cool Thanks! That helps to explain it a little better. i normally run dvds on my xbox 360 or comp. could i just rip the dvd onto my comp and re-burn it to a disk? or would a 360 play it?
Sorry if these questions are a little weird, i never had to deal with formats like this.
Cool Thanks! That helps to explain it a little better. i normally run dvds on my xbox 360 or comp. could i just rip the dvd onto my comp and re-burn it to a disk? or would a 360 play it?
Sorry if these questions are a little weird, i never had to deal with formats like this.
If you re-burn your initial computer must be able to read DVDs from any region. That should be the case for most programs that let you rip DVDs in the first place. Linux for example never even notices the region.
You definitely will not have a problem with the video format on the disk, but you should make a dry run test with a DVD you already have to see whether what you burn program spits out is liked by the XBOX. DVD video format is a mess and not all composition programs come up with DVDs that play in all players.