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I've just bought frrom HMV and it won't play on my DVD playerr. I looked and it says PAL, is that prrobably the prroblem... my DVD playerr can't play PAL DVDs? |
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I'm so angrry. |
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'this' isn't working. maybe you can send it back? |
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On a lot of DVD players you can enter a code on the remote to release the region-lock thingy, apparently |
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Ahh crrap I'll have to take it back. I just want to know why THEY CAN'T MAKE ALL DVDS THE SAME!!! It annoys me because tomorrrrow is my only day off and I don't want to go to town. Oh and also because I wanted to watch it. |
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I think most dvd players in the uk can play PAL, not NTSC, although some can play both. I'm not exactly an expert though. |
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but what is pal? |
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I wish I knew. I'm going to trry it again and get the manual down. |
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cheer up emo kid |
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No, it's the disk. I swearr... |
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And while I'm in a bad mood... I'm sick to the back teeth of hotmail. Everrytime I go on it the scrreen/ box/ whateverr you call it, it just stops rresponding until attempt 3 orr morre. I'm so angrry. |
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Man hotmail is so last season |
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only certain DVD players can play pal format. There are DVD players that will play all formats. and a few DVD players can be "hacked" to play different formats, i don't know if that includes PAL. There are websites where you can find "codes" like sequences you push on your remote to open menus to change the format your player can play.... do a google search. you might get lucky! |
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You're in the UK, every DVD player you're likely to buy here is PAL. If you can't play a PAL DVD then the chances are the DVD is faulty. |
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try ? again, i don't know if this works for PAL! |
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actually says the hack won't work for NTSC and PAL i guess??!! |
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PAL/NTSC is not teh same as region encoding. Anus' DVD is PAL Region 2, his DVD is 99.9% certain to be PAL Region 2 as well. |
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yo, is one more place you could try but yo, i don't know! that's all i got! |
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yeah, that's kinda what i thought. too bad so sad! |
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Yeah. My DVD playerr can play PAL and NTSC. It's just the fecking disk. |
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Thank you forr the link though, evolume, I'll prrobably need it in the futurre. |
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PAL is the standard for Europe, NTSC for America. it has something to do with how many colourlines there are per second on screen and thus the quality of image - in short, PAL is better image quality than NTSC. if you have the choice, always go for a PAL dvd. in this case it does sound like your dvd is fucked. try it on another dvd-player. |
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i found a better place, they even have a hack for my player which i wasn't able tofind before. |
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Why do they do it though? |
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it goes back to the invention of .. power i think. in some parts in the world theres 60Hz AC coming out of your wall, and in other parts its 50Hz. i think thats it. theres also something about the resolution of the image, PAL is better. im not sure about this. |
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because tv's in the US differ from those in Europe. |
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PAL's resolution is higher. |
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technology. |
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I know, it's boring as fuck. but you wanted to know. |
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Almost all DVD players sold in PAL countries play both kinds of discs. These multi-standard players partially convert NTSC to a 60-Hz PAL (4.43 NTSC) signal. The player uses the PAL 4.43-MHz color subcarrier encoding format but keeps the 525/60 NTSC scanning rate. Most modern PAL TVs can handle this "pseudo-PAL" signal. A few multi-standard PAL players output true 3.58 NTSC from NTSC discs, which requires an NTSC TV or a multi-standard TV. Some players have a switch to choose 60-Hz PAL or true NTSC output when playing NTSC discs. There are a few standards-converting PAL players that convert from an NTSC disc to standard PAL output for older PAL TVs. Proper "on the fly" standards conversion requires expensive hardware to handle scaling, temporal conversion, and object motion analysis. Because the quality of conversion in DVD players is poor, using 60-Hz PAL output with a compatible TV provides a better picture than converting from NTSC to PAL. (Sound is not affected by video conversion.) ah, the little autistic child inside me remembered correctly what a load of wankers we are for creating different standards |
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nah, the Americans just have dumber tv's. |
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it's true! mine only tunes in Oprah and Taco Bell commercials! |
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Actually all that stuff about the rreason behind rregions etc... was verry interresting. |
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slap it around a bit. fuckin' redneck tv. |
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my favourite is region 7. reserved.. for what..? it's a good FAQ, quite useful. |
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i was thinking it w0uld be funny if that monolith in your avatar was wearing a santa hat or antlers or something. actually that was my dumb t.v's idea! |
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maybe for some Blade Runner-esk off world colony. a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and region 7 DVD players. Lets Go! To the Colony! |
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Anus, not sure if this will work with your dvd but I have a bjork dvd and one side of the disk is region 2 (pal) which works on UK dvd players and the other side is Region 1 (ntsc). If the dvd looks the same both sides try putting it in the other way around. |
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List of regions 1: U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories 2: Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt) 3: Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong) 4: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean 5: Eastern Europe (Former Soviet Union), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia 6: China 7: New World Order 8: Special international venues (airplanes, cruise ships, etc.) |
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"7: New World Order" wtf is that?? |
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HA HA HA!!! :D |
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Sadly this one doesn't, but the greatest hits does. That's what I used to test if my DVD could play PAL. I've been using it on the NTSC side all this time. |
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Space is Region 1 currently :) Fucking NASA |
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Just to update. I took it back, they said it's out of stock so they'll rring me to swap it. Got the call yesterrday, swapped it today, got home and THIS copy doesn't worrk. I trried it on my mates fancy DVD playerr and it said 'disk dirrty', but the disk is spottless, so it is clearrly at fault herre. I'm rreally disappointed. It was my rreason to live all day at worrk. |
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will it play on your computer? the region codes are just to confuse the chinessee street vendors. |
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that sucks. it must be a fault in this batch. I had the same thing with "the ice storm". I ordered that dvd three times and each and every time I got the same error. |
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Grreat film. It was on telly not long back. I taped it and haven't got arround to watching it yet. |
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yes it is. which made it even suckier the dvd's wouldn't play. :( |
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Yeah, must be a prroblem with the batch. A lad I worrked with forr a couple of weeks had to swap Boogie Nights a grrand total of 6 times at HMV beforre he got one that worrked. |
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