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Post by aubrey on Apr 10, 2010 10:26:20 GMT
I want to buy a dvd from the US. I know that copying dvds will neutralise the region 1 coding - I've done it before - but what about the NTSC coding? I have the idea that that is more to do with the TV than the dvd player.
(By the way, the dvd is a set of the series Strangers and Brothers from the BBC, shown in the early 80s. It is not brilliant, but they are some of my favourite books. The dvds are not available in the UK.)
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Post by riotgrrl on Apr 10, 2010 10:36:36 GMT
No idea. Would you not be easier to just (illegally) download them?
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Post by Weyland on Apr 10, 2010 10:38:18 GMT
I want to buy a dvd from the US. I know that copying dvds will neutralise the region 1 coding - I've done it before - but what about the NTSC coding? I don't know much about this, but I know that both my TVs can do PAL and NTSC, and they're neither recent nor expensive models. A ten-year-old Philips portable and an LG from 2003 or so. And you could always use a computer instead of a TV, I suppose. Then it's a just a question of software. NTSC: Never Twice the Same Color. And indeed, first time I saw NTSC TV in the 80s I couldn't believe just how bad it was. I think they've revamped it a bit since then. |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 10, 2010 10:58:27 GMT
No idea. Would you not be easier to just (illegally) download them? I really hadn't thought of that. I'll have a look. (I've never downloaded TV programmes - just dodgy 70's films. Mostly French.) And thanks Weyland. I'll try to find the booklet for our TV. I like to think that The Simpsons' skin colour was a comment on NTSC - there is a joke about a tv showing a nice skin tone in the first series. And that never twice the same colour is a good mnemonic - I'm always having to look up what order the letters come in. |
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Post by Weyland on Apr 10, 2010 11:17:27 GMT
And that never twice the same colour is a good mnemonic - I'm always having to look up what order the letters come in. In that case, this (from the COD) is even more memorable . . . NTSC noun
The television broadcasting system used in North America and Japan.
ORIGIN 1950s: acronym from National Television System Committee. |
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Post by Patrick on Apr 10, 2010 12:44:37 GMT
According to some folk (on another forum) having this problem, if you google the make and model number of your video and 'region codes', it's apparently a simple case of tapping a code into your remote control and aiming it at the player. Providing your machine is code managable in the first place, of course.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 10, 2010 15:27:13 GMT
9 out of 10 DVD players easily hacked via the handset to play all regions.
Most modern TV's have no problem displaying NTSC
AH
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Post by everso on Apr 10, 2010 21:57:27 GMT
I love the honest dishonesty of the people on this board. ;D
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Post by aubrey on Apr 11, 2010 13:17:51 GMT
I'm not sure of the dishonesty here. I want to buy something that isn't available here, and I'm checking that I wouldn't be doing myself out of £15. Getting past the dvd's regional coding is an honourable practice.
(I will admit to dishonesty at other times, though. Well, what some would call dishonesty anyway.)
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