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  • Simon Carlson-thies

    June 26, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    The question is what is the region code, if you can find that out you should be able to play it if the code is 1 then no problem anything else you’ll have to change your region code…

    Simon Carlson-Thies,
    Digital Light Graphics And Animation

  • Brian Pitt

    June 26, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    Most newer computers will play PAL DVDs. We had a PAL DVD sent from our international branch in Austalia, and it wouldn’t play in any of our consumer DVD players, but it did play on nearly everybodys laptop.

  • Michael Gissing

    June 27, 2006 at 9:24 am

    With luck the disk won’t have region coding which is one of the great dumb ideas of DVD’s. Here in Australia, we all make sure our players ignore region code and our monitors are auto switching to PAL & NTSC.

    Computers however usually insist on a region code and will automatically choose one for you if you don’t – often setting to the region of the 5th DVD that you have played. There are hacks to get around this on PC’s and Macs, but I suggest you try a computer geek forum to find out more. Apart from this intentional software interference, there is no reason why any computer, here or in the US can’t play all DVD regions.

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