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  01-13-2010, 03:17 PM
 
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hi, i have a PAL dvd that will not play in any of my dvd players. i thought it would play in at least one of my players, but it won't. would it be possible for someone here to transfer it to a region free dvd that i can play. i would give you the original PAL dvd and a blank plus some $ for return postage to do this for me. please let me know. by the way the dvd is a Pink concert dvd in retail case. lmk. thanks stoogedog
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  01-14-2010, 03:30 AM
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Read this first: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/show...ions-1948.html
To make a DVD "region free", you just need to rip it correctly, and burn a new copy.

If your DVD player does not play PAL, then I suggest getting one that does. Conversion is not the ideal solution here. Read more about this, and why, at the top of this page: http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/vid...t-pal-ntsc.htm

A new DVD player -- one capable of PAL -- are as low as $25-30 dollars in general retail stores like Target and Walmart. Pretty much anything made in China (which is most all DVD players now), play both PAL and NTSC.
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  01-15-2010, 04:08 PM
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or simply buy the philips dvd player from the megalo mart & enter the region free code from videohelp.com ---- Yes it works :-)
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  01-15-2010, 04:22 PM
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Yeah, the Philips is a bit more $$ at about $50-60, but it does XVID/Divx, too -- my favorite player for sure. Some of them even play XVID off a USB stick, very nice. I hate burning DVD-RW all the time to watch 1 new show from download.
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  01-28-2010, 04:09 PM
 
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Go to best buy and get the $40 TOSHIBA they sell the SD4100 connect it all up turn it on and with NO DISC IN THE MACHINE open the tray on the remote press 98790 and a message will appear on the top right of the screen saying region was changed to "0" then it will play anything form anywhere

I now have two of these players and they are great you sometimes have to repeat the 98790 thing but it only seems to need it if you leave a disc playing in teh machine on loop

apart from that I cant reccomend them enough as I trade alot for pal stuff

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  01-28-2010, 09:57 PM
 
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hi, thanks so much for the info. i'll give one of those a try. thanks stoogedog
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