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As some of you know, I'll be moving from the "United" "Kingdom" to the United States of America. I want to watch UK shows by buying the DVDs, but I need to know if these UK DVDs will play on US players? :) |
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You can get a multi-region dvd player which will allow for playing Region 2 UK dvds. I believer a company called Apex makes them. They're not very expensive. |
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Nice - thanks heaps xlr :) |
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im using my vaio computer to watch dvds... think you can read them all with the right progs |
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why the hell would you want to go to the US? i mean... don't you love wine and french fries? |
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I plan to kidnap underage girls and transport them to Death Valley. *NOTE TO ANY FEDS - I'M KIDDING* |
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He he, remember the age of consent is 18 in some states there... |
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Yeah, when I met my wife, she was only 16 - so shagging her one night on the bleachers of the school football field freaked me out a little. |
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Yeah just get a dvd player which has a multi region capacity, you can find out which players have them by going to a dvd website. I had to enter a code for mine and it plays everything. |
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Be careful. Almost all European players will convert the NTSC (USA/Japan) signal for playback on a PAL TV, but most US players will not do the reverse (typical). So check vcdhelp.com to make sure you have the right kind of player. I have a Philips 724 and it plays European and Japanese DVDs very well right out of the box. |
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Buy one in this country that plays multi region and then use a power converter. That's probably the best option. |
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why aren't the dvd players the same format? i don't understand why there needs to be a difference. |
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It's not the DVD player, it's the television standard. It's historical...DVDs did add the stupid region lock though. |
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Because European govt.s are ****ers and like to tax us through the nose for anything we wouldn't die without. We'd just by our DVDs from USA/turkey etc. otherwise... Oh and it helps lets them ban films in certain countries/areas too. |
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whoa, all that control is a little scary |
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What the Whale said. The US is on NTSC format which is slightly inferior to PAL. So in theory the UK release should be a better picture quality although it's only noticeable on a top of the range TV. The regions thing was for DVD and it licks balls. They've tried to combat peope importing with a new coding bit that's easy to bypass too. Region 1 is America, Region 2 is UK, Region 3 is ????, Region 4 is Australia, Region 5 is Russia I think, Region 6 China. I'm not sure on those. Oh and Space is Region 1. I kid you not. |
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and so another reason they make the regions different is so you can't order from the u.s. and recieve cheaper tax? |
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Yeah, my brother suggested buying a DVD player here in the UK and getting an adaptor for it - I'll check out some sites nearer to the time to see what gives :) Thanks for the help all. |
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