Hey guys,
Okay, I really want to get something on DVD, but apparently the PAL version isn't coming out for a ridiculously long time, and basically, I need it...
My DVD player can apparently play NTSC things, but they come out black and white on the screen so any help with that? Does the TV itself not support them? Also, there's three AV channels on my TV, and for each on there's also an alternate "S" mode which makes PAL DVDs black and white (although I've never tested an NTSC DVD). For instance there's AV1, AV2 and AV3, but there's also AV1/S, AV2/S and AV3/S. That isn't an NTSC TV mode by any chance is it? Please tell me it is......
Gah, I'm dying here... Even though I really don't want this, would NTSC DVDs run in my computer's DVD Drive?
you could always buy it, put it on your computer, remove the region lock, and then burn a new copy. But that would be a lot of steps
Yeah.... but I really don't feel in the mood for something like that.
Does your TV support 60 Hz playback?
Most likely it's either the TV not supporting 60 Hz PAL, or the DVD player is incompatible with the NTSC (29.97 FPS) MPEG-2 encoding.
And it just clicked. DVD region encoding. DVD players can only support 1 region by design. You're playing a DVD from a different region, and most likely, if your player is playing it, it's doing so by obscure circumvention which could either cause the playback not designed for your hardware, or poor circumvention of the CSS. Most likely it's that your DVD player is the case.
As for playing in your PC. You _could_, theoretically, but you'd have to change the DVD region on your drive, which can only be done 4 times before you have to buy a new drive to change back.
Really? Why is that?
Because region locks are there to stop people from importing DVDs
Try and find some firmware for your drive to make it region X
some TV's will only go black and white with NTSC content, my old tv and the few imported US games for instance,
how ever, if your connecting your DVD player to your telly via scart,
(which you are if your using your AV inputs)
!!! make sure your using a 'full scart' (no pins missing) !!! this may help.
tho even better, if your dvd player has component outputs rather than RGB use them instead.
BTW the AV S are if your conecting via Din plugs for SuperVideo, (if the device uses a SVideo to scart or RGB cable that's a setting for that.
Okay thanks
Just so you know, my DVD player, which was not a very expensive model by anyone's standards, had a combinations of keypresses on the remote that literally removed the DVD player's region lock. I found it by googling, and was able to watch my out of region copy of Battle Royale. Apparently almost all Phillips DVD players have this ability, from what I can tell at least.
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Just so you know, my DVD player, which was not a very expensive model by anyone's standards, had a combinations of keypresses on the remote that literally removed the DVD player's region lock. I found it by googling, and was able to watch my out of region copy of Battle Royale. Apparently almost all Phillips DVD players have this ability, from what I can tell at least.
I remember hearing about stuff like that and I think the DVD player we have upstairs can do that as well. Maybe you should just try Google, Cosmic.