Hello Jennifer,
There are two distinct issues to consider, DVD region coding, and the
TV colour playback system.
The DVD industry imposes an artificial, commercial system of coding
onto (most) DVDs. They divide the world into seven regions, and their
intention is that a DVD player bought in one region will only play
DVDs sold for use in that region. Most manufacturers only pay lip
service to this - generally a player as bought will be restricted to
one region's DVD's, but a one-off entering of a special sequence of
codes on the remote control will release the restriction.
More fundamental is the TV colour transmission systems. There are
three main standards for this: NTSC, PAL and SECAM. NTSC is used in
North and Central America, northern South America, Japan and a couple
of other places. SECAM is used in Russia, France and former French
colonies. PAL, or a variant of PAL, is used everywhere else.
A DVD player will generate signals using the transmission system for
the country where it is sold. Many modern television sets will accept
signals for more than one standard.
In the UK, dual PAL/NTSC sets are very common.
So, for use in Australia, you might need a Region 4, PAL DVD. However,
you might have a multi-region player, which would make the region
coding irrelevant.
You should also check whether your TV will accept NTSC signals as well
as PAL, which would make the transmission standard irrelevant too.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 23/07/2009, at 10:06 PM, Andrew wrote:
You could check if DVD player is set to PAL or NTSC.
Andrew
On 23/07/2009, at 9:23 PM, Jennifer Lefroy
<lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have a BBC Acorn DVD with no region code on it that I can find.
I can play it on My Mac OSX but not on our DVD player. The message
comes up "Warning Incompatible TV System Setting". Can anyone help
with information to make it playable?
Thanks,
Jennifer
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