On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:26:26AM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Jerome Cornet wrote: > > Unfortunately in Canada they still sell NTSC-only DVD players, and > > there's no way you can play PAL-DVDs on those. > > Hmmm - are the same model(s) of DVD players available in Canada as > in the US? Both are region 1 and NTSC so they might be the same. > > I was (pleasantly) surprised to put a PAL DVD (sent from Austria) > in and "it just worked".
Some players in the US and I assume Canada are internally multi-format, even if they're not advertised as such. It might require entering a secret code into the remote to unlock the capability, the same way that some can unlock multi-region support. Some can even transcode, playing back PAL DVDs as NTSC or vice versa, though the resulting image might be a little choppy. Ironically it can be the cheaper brands and models which have more of this functionality, probably so that they only have to design one device and then be able to sell it world-wide. Occasionally the DVD makers throw a fit and force a firmware change to disable the capabilties, so if you go shopping for a known-hackable model, don't be too shocked if a brand-new one doesn't respond to all of the old hacks. For example check your model here: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks -Dave Dodge ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
