Bloody DVD Region encodings...
So, I found a series which I truely enjoy and want to purchase on DVD but guess what....Its only available in Regions 2 and 4 not in the good ole US of A. The name of the show is Doc Martin and its about a surgeon who has practically no social skills who develops a blood phobia thus he becomes a general practioner (GP) of a small village in Cornwall, England. The best way I can describe it is a little House mixed with Everwood and something else I cannot quite identify. Its quite a unique show and is highly recommended by both myself and mom.
Why do we have region encodings, well here is a quick quote on why we have them:
The world has 3 main television standards: NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. In the US all broadcasts, except HDTV, meet this standard. In the UK, PAL is the dominate standard. SECAM is used in France, Russia and some African countries. 95% of the worlds DVD players can read NTSC. All PAL DVD players will output NTSC and most PAL televisions will display NTSC with no problems. In Europe you can find companies which produce products which work with both NTSC and PAL standards, but similar products are hard to find in the US. The three differences between NTSC discs and PAL discs are: 1) Picture size and pixel aspect ratio (720x480 vs 720x576), 2) Display frame rate (29.97 vs 25), 3) surround audio options (Dolby Digital vs MPEG audio). In addition, there are various frame rates (24, 25, and 30 frames per second are common).
I'm tired of this crap. Its a global marketplace on things except for movies. I want a video from England thats not available here, and if I get it from England it may not work in my hardware because of these stupid regions. Its quite annoying....damn them all!!!!
~Kisea
Why do we have region encodings, well here is a quick quote on why we have them:
The global DVD marketplace is divided into six regional zones. This controversial regional coding system was ostensibly introduced to combat piracy. It also allows film distributors to stagger theatrical and DVD movie releases across the world's various markets. Thus a film can be released for sale on DVD in one territory only, with access to the disc restricted via regional coding so that this DVD cannot be viewed on a DVD player from another differently coded territory where the film may not have even been released in cinemas yet.Don't think its working too well, what do you think?
The world has 3 main television standards: NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. In the US all broadcasts, except HDTV, meet this standard. In the UK, PAL is the dominate standard. SECAM is used in France, Russia and some African countries. 95% of the worlds DVD players can read NTSC. All PAL DVD players will output NTSC and most PAL televisions will display NTSC with no problems. In Europe you can find companies which produce products which work with both NTSC and PAL standards, but similar products are hard to find in the US. The three differences between NTSC discs and PAL discs are: 1) Picture size and pixel aspect ratio (720x480 vs 720x576), 2) Display frame rate (29.97 vs 25), 3) surround audio options (Dolby Digital vs MPEG audio). In addition, there are various frame rates (24, 25, and 30 frames per second are common).
I'm tired of this crap. Its a global marketplace on things except for movies. I want a video from England thats not available here, and if I get it from England it may not work in my hardware because of these stupid regions. Its quite annoying....damn them all!!!!
~Kisea
posted by Brian Wright at 9:49 PM
1 Comments:
There are programs around that will let you play those DVDs on your computer without altering the region of your DVD-ROM drive.
That may be an option for you.
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