Posted by Stuart on 04/29/07 05:14

"Kate" <lorisoard@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> ERROR: Please check the TV system.
>
> What is this Region 1 DVD player trying to tell me?
> * I bought a dozen DVDs at the thrift shop for a buck each
> * Nothing on the label says whether they are PAL or NTSC
> * They play perfectly on my Windows XP computer
> * But in the NTSC DVD player, they all give the error
> "Please check the TV system"
>
> Could these thrift-shop DVDs be PAL instead of NTSC?
> How could I prove the DVDs are PAL or NTSC?

You may have to decrypt one to copy one of the VOB files onto your hard disk
then you can use GSpot or AVICodec to give you the info. Sounds like they
are PAL

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