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Playing PAL discs on NTSC hardware

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I bought a fairly expensive set of DVDs containing the old Lovejoy TV show series. The set is from Freemantle Media Enterprises and has a logo that says Revelation. The discs are marked PAL2. Based on what I read about ANYDVD I thought the Merry Old England DVDs wouldn't be a problem. They play fine on my computer and Clone DVD seems to make a good copy but neither the original DVDs (I expected this) nor the Copy (I didn't expect this) will play on any of my DVD players here in the USA. According to the menus in Clone DVD the region code has been eliminated but the copied DVD won't play. Can any of you techno mages help me. As the matter now sits I have a set of DVDs that I can either play only on my computer or use as an expensive paperweight. Any help gratefully appreciated.
 
You're posting in the wrong section. DVD problems do not belong in the Bluray section. DVD is one floor up. That being said, while anydvd does remove the region of a DVD if chosen to, it does NOT CHANGE the video standard used. EU titles use the PAL (25/50fps) standard, the US uses NTSC (approx 24fps). Which is likely the cause, your player most likely doesn't support the PAL video standard. Anydvd does not turn PAL into NTSC or vice versa. You still need third party software that can do this (slysoft does not have such a product) and you'll lose the original menu in the process.

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use an 'upscaling' hardware player or convert the format to NTSC
 
As another one said, you will loose the original menu, but it is possible to entirely convert the main feature and extra material of a PAL-DVD to NTSC-DVD, by using TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5. Pay software, it costs about $100, but it gets the job done. It can create both DVD and Blu-ray with menus.
 
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Upscaling only enhances video or changes from 1 resolution to another, it doesn't change the video standard used.

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sorry about the wrong forum thanks for info

Ch3vr0n said:
You're posting in the wrong section. DVD problems do not belong in the Bluray section. DVD is one floor up. That being said, while anydvd does remove the region of a DVD if chosen to, it does NOT CHANGE the video standard used. EU titles use the PAL (25/50fps) standard, the US uses NTSC (approx 24fps). Which is likely the cause, your player most likely doesn't support the PAL video standard. Anydvd does not turn PAL into NTSC or vice versa. You still need third party software that can do this (slysoft does not have such a product) and you'll lose the original menu in the process.

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Many thanks for the information at least I now know where to look.
 
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