I have ordered a DVD from the US of A and it is supposed to be in NTSC
format.  Please, folks, how can I play this either on a DVD player or
on my computer? I am based in the UK and have UK equipment.
--
Alasdair.

In news:049ic4l4urta9veke1ot1c61frfkebmbbo@4ax.com,
  Alasdair bashed on  keyboard and typed:
> I have ordered a DVD from the US of A and it is supposed to be in NTSC
> format.  Please, folks, how can I play this either on a DVD player or
> on my computer? I am based in the UK and have UK equipment.

It all depends. Players often are multi format allowing you to change 
between region 1 and 2 up to seven times then stick on the last one used. 
likewise computer DVD's but here it is both the software and the Physical 
drive. On that bases and if you have never played a region 1 before you 
should be alright as long as you dont keep playing it and reach the magic 7.

There is sometimes a cheat code you can tap in to your remote to make the 
player ignore region codes These may  be found at www.vcdhelp.com search for 
your model


-- 
Trev
Nobody is perfect.
But Being a Yorkshire man is as close as you can get.

"Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message 
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> In news:049ic4l4urta9veke1ot1c61frfkebmbbo@4ax.com,
>  Alasdair bashed on  keyboard and typed:
>> I have ordered a DVD from the US of A and it is supposed to be in 
>> NTSC
>> format.  Please, folks, how can I play this either on a DVD player 
>> or
>> on my computer? I am based in the UK and have UK equipment.
>
> It all depends. Players often are multi format allowing you to 
> change between region 1 and 2 up to seven times then stick on the 
> last one used. likewise computer DVD's but here it is both the 
> software and the Physical drive. On that bases and if you have never 
> played a region 1 before you should be alright as long as you dont 
> keep playing it and reach the magic 7.

Slight correction, it's not the number of times a *given* region is 
selected but the number of times the region is **changed** - on the 
7th change the settings will become permanent, sort of some major OS 
hacking or a HDD format and re-install...

>
> There is sometimes a cheat code you can tap in to your remote to 
> make the player ignore region codes These may  be found at 
> www.vcdhelp.com search for your model
>

There is another problem, if a stand alone player (or the output from 
a computer video card) is being feed to a TV, this is the fact that 
the device needs to be able to cope with PAL60 [1] - rather that the 
PAL standard of PAL50 [2], most modern should cope but other AV 
equipment might not.

[1] 60 frames per second
[2] usually just referred to as PAL as 50fps is the standard, derived 
from the power supply (mains) frequency of the recording equipment, 
the UK being 50hz and the USA being 60hz
-- 
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Hyde Park and 'speakers corner'...

"Alasdair" wrote...
>I have ordered a DVD from the US of A and it is supposed to be in NTSC
> format.  Please, folks, how can I play this either on a DVD player or
> on my computer? I am based in the UK and have UK equipment.

There are two main issues with discs bought in America: Region restriction 
(they are region 1, we are region 2) and TV standard (they are NTSC, we are 
PAL)

Do you know if it's region restricted? If you have a DVD burner, the easiest 
way to fix it is to use DVD Decryptor or similar to copy the VIDEO_TS folder 
to your hard drive, then just use Nero or similar to put it back on a DVDR. 
Unless your TV and player are ancient, the original non-region disc, or your 
new non-region copy of a region 1 disc, will work fine even thought they are 
NTSC.