Avital - do you know, by any chance - what region Australia is in?
Sending/receiving DVDs is another gift idea - and a good one - If they work
at the other end!!
I did not know about the regions and DVDs being regional. I knew TV and
Videos were, but had not thought about DVDs.
Regards
Australia is region 4. But there are various 'hacks' available. I work in
pay-TV, so it's not hard for me to find someone to hack a player, if I happened
to own one. If you know someone who's fairly geeky, then you could try asking.
For PCs, it's fairly easy to find a program to convert the DVD
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Oh, right. I assumed you were using a commercial movie format. If you're
using a
PC movie format like wma and burning it to a DVD, then you're right. You
can use
anything. PCs have no regions
I want to get a DVD made from a Video to send to the UK.
What I need to know is whether a DVD made in Canada work on a computer in the
UK or does it have to be in PAL format? The difference in cost is quite
considerable ($25.00 for normal for Canada or $145.00 for PAL).
The manager at the
What you do need to worry about is the DVD region format. North America
is region 1, while UK, Europe, and Middle East are region 2. Playing a
I think this is for the commercially sold DVDs, as in movies. If we make a
DVD on our computer, it should be playable on another computer, anywhere
in
Oh, right. I assumed you were using a commercial movie format. If you're using a
PC movie format like wma and burning it to a DVD, then you're right. You can use
anything. PCs have no regions (unlike DVD players).
Avital
What you do need to worry about is the DVD region format. North America
