RE: any place to find a complete boxed set of The Onedin Line

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liamegan2000
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The problem as I understand it is not just the region, as you correctly say many players can be "hacked" to play any region, this might seem an alarming term but normally is in fact only entering some code in from the keypad on the remote, usually with the tray open. Sites such as:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks have lots of info.

But apparently this is not always enough for North American equipment. And it is due to the differing TV standard.

USA = NTSC
Europe = PAL (mostly).

This refers to the system used for TV, the two are not compatible, although it seems a lot of DVD players will play PAL DVD discs in a way compatible for NTSC TVs. (Anyone who can confirm?). We are luckier the other way around in the UK. I've never come across a DVD player that can't play NTSC discs to our PAL TVs.

A somewhat laborious work-around is to "rip" a PAL DVD on a PC using "DVD Decrypter", then from the resulting files use "TMPGEnc DVD Author 3" to re-author a DVD but set to NTSC output, in other words it converts from PAL to NTSC, these files are then burnt to a new disc.

Naturally this must break various copyrights and so forth, but I believe in the USA you are allowed to make a backup copy of your discs, so you should be ok (?).

Bill

—– Original Message —–
From: bty261364
To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Re: any place to find a complete boxed set of The Onedin Line

— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, robin wilson <robinadair@…>
wrote:
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> Hello, just joined up..perhaps this questions is already out there,
but is there a source for a complete boxed set of The Onedin Line that
will play in the USA? Any help would be just wonderful and appreciated!
> __________________________________________________________

I belong to another 'cult' message board and what the folks in the US
(or other non-Region 2 areas) do is buy Region 2 disks and then 'hack'
their DVD player to be region-free.

There are websites which give the 'hack' codes for each model of DVD
player.

I give that advice in good faith – please don't blame me if it goes
pear-shaped!!

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