In addition, DVD players currently sold in Australia (and for the
past 18-24 months or so) must be multiregional.
I'm not aware of being able to detect region coding by looking at the
disc itself, but if it's a legitimate (store bought movie / tv
series / music etc.) DVD on the back cover of the case down the
bottom along with the copyright information, running time and such,
there's a tiny icon of a globe with a number in it which indicates
which region it's from.
As Jude says, the actual video format will be more of a hassle than
the region coding these days. Again, most modern DVD players account
automatically for PAL and NTSC without the user being aware of the
difference, but some older televisions won't display them properly.
Cheers!
Callum
The region code won't be inserted unless you do it on purpose. It's
really a form of copyright protection that is used to control when
and where things are released.
You may need to think about PAL vs NTSC though, unless he is going
to play the DVD on his computer.
cheers
Jude
Is a DVD that I burn from my DVD recorder a Region 4? Likewise,
what region comes out of iDVD or Toast 8 and my G5? Is there a
way to look into a disk and find the region? The only way I can
think of is by forcing a region change in my computer and see what
reads, but no way for that? Arises from request to send an off-
air recording made here(region 4 probably) to a friend in Canada
(region 1).
Severin Crisp
________________________________________________________
Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au
& http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp
________________________________________________________
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>
Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>
Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
