Posted by Geoff B on 03/13/06 19:42

"Ricardo" wondered...
> Hello,
> I am willing to buy a DVD film in Amazon. The problem is that I live in
> Poland (Central Europe) and the Amazon description of the film goes as
> follows:
> Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
> Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
> Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
> My question is whether I will experience problems because of this "region
> 1"
> encoding watching the film on a DVD player or a computer? The other thing
> is
> the color encoding by NTSC, and here in POland we do have PAL, as far as I
> know.
> Please give me a hint on that. Thanks a lot in advance.
> Kind regards from Poland,
> Ricardo

Most DVD players will have a 'hack' that can be accessed from the remote
contol to free up the region codes - but you might have to hunt on the
internet to find the right code for your machine (although sometimes staff
in the shop selling them will know, so you could try asking there).
As for the PC drive - I'm trying to find out what is the best programme to
use, myself.

Cheers,

_______
Geoff B

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