free region

[morton]

Can you burn to free region? Or how can I get copy so it will play on Pal system?

[GregiBoy]

Fab will remove the region encoding.

It will not convert NTSC->PAL nor PAL->NTSC.

You will need a multisystem player & TV to do this.

[morton]

It will remove it, what does it mean?

[GregiBoy]

Your set top player is usually set to a region and normally only play DVD's from that region or region-free DVD's.

DVD Fab will take the original DVD, and when copying it, remove any region code present on the DVD, providing you have this is ticked in the settings.

This will allow the copy to be played in any region DVD player but, as I said, does not convert between TV standards so the copy may not play unless your equipment is multi-system.

[morton]

I used Rip4me before, It is a much longer procces but it has setting for region free. will this one work for me?

[jdbower]

It was actually a PAL/NTSC issue that made me switch towards a media center streaming video to my XBox over DVD duplication - getting the Danish version of Riget to play in my DVD player was far too annoying. If you don't have a compatible system, you can check to see if you can read DIVX or other formats in your DVD player and see if DVD-to-Mobile is right for you.

[jdbower]

I used Rip4me before, It is a much longer procces but it has setting for region free. will this one work for me?

That does exactly what DVDFab does, makes it region free but not convert between NTSC and PAL.

[morton]

So I can play it in Europe on a region free DVD?

[jdbower]

You can play it anyplace in the known universe, but if it's a PAL source it must be a PAL system, if it's an NTSC source it must be an NTSC system. Some systems can handle both, but they're not common (at least in the US).

[signals]

You can play it on your PC but not on your TV. PAL and NTSC are different video standards, only coincidentally related to region coding.

[morton]

I bought SRARGATE and took it to Europe, it said it was region free on the lable, played it on Pal system. How??

[jdbower]

It was region-free so it didn't matter what region the DVD player was encoded for. Even if it wasn't, many cheap DVD players ignore that part anyway.

As for the PAL/NTSC issue, the most likely reason is that something in your European setup knows how to read NTSC as well as PAL (this would especially be true if it catered to US tourists).

Another viable option is that you ended up with a bootleg version of the disc which by random fluke was PAL-encoded and wouldn't work on US DVD players - not likely but a lot more amusing to contemplate

[GregiBoy]

Most European and Oz A/V systems are Multi-System and will play both NTSC & PAL.

[morton]

Can you explain how I played a DVD from the USA which I bought on line on my pal system, It did say free region on the lable.

[GregiBoy]

You have already had your answers!!!

Read them!!!