I read here about ordering the DVDs on www.dvdzone2.com. I was planning on doing it, but when I went to convert the price to dollars, I could not find the option. I was looking for the letters USD (US Dollar). Should I have been looking for a different set of letters?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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You do know that those DVDs won't play on a DVD player bought in the US?
Tennant and some others have the scoop on the nitty-gritty, but before you spend all that money to have them shipped here, you oughta know they're useless with an "as-is" DVD player.
So if I bought a season, then it would not work on an American DVD player? Um...jus this question. WHY?!
Tennant? Anybody?
On 30 Jun 2000 17:54:15 GMT, [email] (Hilfig8484) wrote:
Even if you've got a multi-region DVD player (or a hacked "restricted" one), you still have to deal with converting the European PAL video format to the US NTSC format. Good quality format converters are very expensive, quite a lot more than a DVD drive. Despite the insistence that it's simply a matter of using a different set of connections on your TV, it's really not that simple. You ~can~ use certain DVD drives with PAL discs on NTSC TVs: for instance, the Apex drive that was discussed here recently has NTSC output as an option, but the conversion is far from perfect. The picture is squashed, and there are many visible defects in the picture. There are similar problems with the quality of the conversion in other multi-region drives. True conversion requires changing the frame rate from 25 to 30, making subtle tint adjustments, changes to the subcarrier frequency, as well as changing the lines of resolution from 625 to 525. If you think you're going to be able to do all that by using a different connection on your TV, well, keep on dreaming!
You could purchase a multi-format TV. They aren't much more expensive than an NTSC-only model (cheaper than a converter, actually!)
If you have your computer in the same room as one of your TVs, you could also consider purchasing a computer DVD drive. Overriding the region locks is trivial if you do your homework about the different models first. If you've got a video card that can output to TV, then you can watch that way because the format is no longer an issue. It's just pixels. If your video card doesn't have TV out, an upgrade wouldn't be very expensive. A cheap one would run you about $30-$40, and a top-notch Voodoo3 card can be had for under $100.
Hellooooo!!! After getting drunk in Vegas, Hilfig8484 doodled cat whiskers on his/her face and miaowed this little lot at a statue...
NTSC is a lower format than PAL (ie. in terms of the number of lines used) - hence, someone can watch NTSC on a PAL TV, but someone trying to watch PAL on an NTSC TV will have a hell of a job (and a lot of money to spend).
In article , Tina wrote:
You should be able to bypass the whole NTSC/PAL business by directly connecting the player to the TV. In Europe we do this with an RGB lead which gives the best possible picture quality. There are various others with rival names that are not quite as good but still work, then simple composite video which might or not, then the aerial lead which probably won't. If DVD-Video is working on your computer then you should have no problems, as long as you have a software hackable DVD-ROM drive.
Tennant
On 30 Jun 2000 17:54:15 GMT, [email] (Hilfig8484) wrote:
Regian code. Just find a website that tells you how do disable it...(your going to have open your DVD player up). Funny enough...when you do that it usually disables the macrovision too.
Eric
In article , "Michael Martin" wrote:
You need to get a multiregion player that connects directly to your TV, not through the aerial socket. I can't give competent advice as I don't live in America, but I do know that anyone who tells you it is impossible is just trying to put you off. Don't listen to them.
Tennant
In article , [email] (Hilfig8484) wrote:
The price is given in euros, the European currency.
At the time of writing, the pound is worth 1.5827 euros, 1.5121 dollars, so a dollar is worth 1.0467 euros. That's near enough for you to pretend that euros are dollars if you like. Anyway, dvdzone2 are charging �56.99 per season, which is $54.45 (or �36.01).
Tennant