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Originally Posted by synthia
You can change the region code, but are they the same format? I thought that DVDs had the same problem as tapes did. They use a different format, so the players literally cannot process the content.
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I've always wondered about that too, but it appears that the DVD to NTSC or PAL or SECAM conversion is handled in the DVD player itself. (Not sure how a DVD player built to play back on a PAL tv would react on being hooked up to NTSC in the States, however maybe the HiDef stuff changes all that.)
I can tell you that I often buy DVDs in the US and play them on our "zone-less" DVD player back here in France (which is connected to a PAL/SECAM television). The few DVDs that really won't work (some studios have a security encryption that prevents you from playing them on a zone-less or multi-zone player), I just play back on my computer.
Cheers,
Bev