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hiyall01 in barrowmanfans

His DVD?

Aug 30, 2010 23:50

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is allowed by the mods. But I just wanted to ask some questions!

1. I have the last one. It was brilliant. Is this one worth buying? Who going?

2. On John Barrowman's website, it says his DVD is on pre-order, and it's Region 0 (Region free) that means I can order it from America, correct? And does the PAL or NTSC mean ( Read more... )

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tlen2 August 31 2010, 08:07:58 UTC

To explain some more things: Due to copyrigth reasons - a DVD which is solled to one market shouldn't be available to another - movies and tv-series usually are region-locked as well as are the dvd players (although you can find some players which play any region). Regiona1 is North America, Region 2 Europe and so on. Region 0 means regionfree so this dvd will play on any players.

The video norm used in USAS is NTSC, in Europe it's pal. Most eurepean players and tv-setss can play NTSC though. Not sure if US one play pal so to be on the safe side order NTSC.

And as already suggested it's often cheaper to order via an UK-online-store then buy in the US. You just need a creditcard.

ragdollpixie August 31 2010, 17:32:27 UTC

Hi, sorry to jump in but I have a really stupid question: Does it affect computers? I'm on an iMac and I don't know if I should get NTSC or PAL.

tlen2 August 31 2010, 18:41:23 UTC

Oh I agree, I'm on a Mac as well. I think I'll stick to the NTSC one though. Obviously American DVDs run on it. And if I play I ever want to play on the TV, i'll need it.

tlen2 August 31 2010, 20:03:25 UTC

As far as I know it has no effect on computers. The difference between Pal and NTSC lays in the different framerate and resolution of the picture. Your computer graphic card should be able to deal with both. But if you want to have the option to run it on an US-tv as well you rather stick with NTSC to be on the save side.

hiyall01 August 31 2010, 22:26:18 UTC

I've looked it up online, apparently you can set your computer to different regions, though only so many times (on macs, apparently it's five), but people haven't had any problems with it.

I don't know how to do that, but that's that.

tlen2 September 1 2010, 08:56:45 UTC

That means your DVD-drive not your grapic card. Don't mixe those. The regioncode is for the dvd-player or the dvd-drive on your computer. As I tried to explain in different parts of the world you have different region codes.

Usually you have 5 times where you can change the code of your dvd-drive on your pc then it will be locked tot hose you chose as last option. There are programs avalaible which make your drive play any regioncode any time. But that's not quite the legal way. But with the DVDs are regionfree you don't have to worry about that.

NTSC/Pal is about the video itself. They have different amount of pixels per picture f.e. But the different is not that much so usually modern tv-sets can handly it and for graphic cards it's no deal at all. The most crucial thing of buying a foreign DVD ever would be the region-code

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