Posted by jeffambrose424 on 08/07/07 16:11

On Aug 7, 12:09 pm, "the dog from that film you saw"
<d...@removethisportionbtinternet.com> wrote:
> <jeffambrose...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:1186502513.080611.60120@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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>
> > Hi,
>
> > I bought some dvds overseas in Sweden (PAL) that I want to play on my
> > North American
> > DVD Player (NTSC) without the issue of region encoding. I copied a
> > dvd to my harddrive
> > and burned it to dvd and it runs fine on my computer. The region
> > warning is gone.
> > When I put the dvd in my Philips home dvd player (DVR-3050V) the
> > picture is obscured
> > by rolling bands, large bands, that roll up and down the screen. The
> > dvd plays normally
> > in 2 other dvd players I own (Sanyo/Emerson) one of which I thought
> > was lower quality,
> > integrated into a tv combo.
>
> > How can I make the dvd play normally in my home Philips dvd player?
> > Do I change a
> > setting in the player or in my software?
>
> > Software used: DVDCopy Fab, or Arc Dvd Copy with AnyDVD dumped to HD.
>
> sounds like your phillips player just can't cope with PAL - you'd need to
> convert the dvds to NTSC on your pc before burning - and that's going to
> result in loss of quality.
>
> --
> Gareth.
>
> That fly... is your magic wand.http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

What is the best program to make the conversion balancing loss of
quality with
ease of use ?

Either way, looks like I'm buying a new dvd player. . .a cheap $50 one
would
probably do.

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