11-02-2004, 07:30 AM
Puppet Master Wrote:Sorry to hear that its weird too...It does say that it plays PAL which means it should play other regions weird...
PAL is not the same as region encoding. I can't explain the exact diffrence but PAL/NTSC has something to do with the number of lines your TV displays. I think PAL was 50 lines and NTSC are 60 lines or something (maybe it was frame rate). The regions have nothing to do with this. You can have R1 pal dvd's and ntsc dvd's aswell as any other region combined with PAL or NTSC. Almost any new dvd player reads PAL and NTSC and you can select the output signal to be either one.
I don't know if you looked for this Cidien but it is possible to find cracks for dvd players to make them region free on the net (don't remember the site but shouldn't be hard to google). FI my philips becomes region free when I open the tray and push the '0' button 4 times followed by the region I want it to be.