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In Reply to: HOW DVDS SHOULD BE posted by lingerlonger on August 08, 2002 at 14:45:03:
dvd player with a 75$ chip, that will allow you to play movies from any region--seems well worth the price.I'm miffed because I can't find Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends on dvd, or vhs, here--so I tried to order it abroad, and was informed that it wouldn't play in my us machine.
oh pooh,
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...JVC also makes a very good PAL/NTSC DVD player with conversion, as well as S-VHS machines with same. I'll see if I can find the website -they're in Michigan. The players were very reasonable.I'm contemplating a WS plasma or DLP display, which can do PAL and NTSC, no need for converter - I think the Panny 42" also does SECAM, so that should pretty much cover it.
I've found, much to my disgust, that a lot of material either isn't released in North America, or it's a superior version for Region 2 (like the recent DVD of All That Jazz). Many European classics are still unavailable here, as well as certain Brit TV - as you found out.
A word of warning: because of different frame rates of film vs PAL and the film to video conversion, PAL DVDs and videos are ever so slightly speeded up. Some people never notice, some do. There are players out there with pitch adjustment - that's what they're for, the audio, being faster, is ever so slightly higher in pitch. The Region 1 Lord of the Rings is 178 minutes. The Region 2 LOTR is 170 minutes. Nothing cut. Just a faster frame rate for PAL.
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