Hey,


I have a pretty weird question. I'm living in Belgium and I would REALLY REALLY like to have the documentary 'American Movie' on dvd - anybody who knows it ? - but it's only out in a Region 1 version, but I don't have a regionfree dvd player. Is there any way to - if I could buy the Region 1 version somewhere - to 'convert' all the dvd files to computer files and then write to a region 2? Like a NTSC/PAL conversion?

I know this probably isn't possible, but I just wanted to check...

Thanks,

There are two things:

- region "protection"

- NTSC video standard

A lot of players sold in Europe have some secret button combination to make it region free or select a region. Type your player name into google with "region free" and see if you can find any.

After this I would probably simply get a region free DVD player? These shouldn't be too hard to find for under a 100 euro's. Unless you have a HQ player with upscaling and stuff, then obviously you don't want to get another one.

Lastly you can copy a DVD on a computer and simply remove the region protection. Things like DVD Region Free and I think DVD Shrink can do that. Then burn it on a DVD-/+R and watch that.

All of the above assumes your player & TV (or whatever you're watching on) supports NTSC playback. Most European TV's do!

Before I had a complete Media Center setup I had a 75 euro DVD player with a region hack through the remote control. Worked like a charm. I would need that anyway, about half of my pretty large DVD collection is region 1 ;)

Thanks Rob.
I suspected some solutions like that. Do you know that movie by the way? It's a hilarious documentary about a redneck trying to make films, without many and without that much talent. It's really hilarious, but touching also.

How is it going at RED, BTW?

Nope, don't know the movie. Sounds like fun :)

Busy busy here at RED. Million+ things to do and get ready for NAB ;)