15 Jul
2003
15 Jul
'03
6:20 p.m.
About 5 years ago we (me and _my_ better half) bought a video tape in
China ... It played similarly to Dave's ... no picture and screwed up
audio.
Does anyone know if PAL is the standard in China as well?
-Eric Rz.
On Tue 15/07/2003 14:29:55, Joe Hartley wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:55:10 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net> wrote:
Is there some way to change a hardware DVD
player to accept another
region coding...
Completely depends on the player - some allow you to change the region a
fixed number of times.
How does it happen that my Linux players
recognize these discs with
no trouble ?
Magic :) (Translation - I have no idea!) But it's heartening to know
it worked. My guess is that Windows machines would be careful to honor
the region encoding because MS is so closely aligned with the MPAA with
regards to digital rights management. Dunno about Macs, but my guess is
that they'd honor the region encoding as well.
The VHS tape is still a problem. Our player
doesn't seem to like it,
no picture appears but we can hear the audio moving along at something
like twice normal speed. Can anyone tell me what's up with that and if
there's some way to fix it ?
Your tape is likely in the PAL format, the European standard for TV
broadcasting. It has a different number of lines scanned per second
than the NTSC format used in the US. I think your only option here
is to find someone with a PAL VCR and get them to dub a copy onto an
NTSC VCR.
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