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    Hello everyone, I just bought a DVD from a well known site, the DVD is about videos from a well known singer (mostly in Europe) but the site never mentioned anything about region code. I played the DVD first on my PC without problems, but when I used my standalone DVD player I get this message: "the disk cannot be played, please check the TV system). I guess it is encoded for a different region ( I live in USA). I have Nero 9 on my PC. Can you please let me know how can I copy this DVD --burnt it-- so that I can play it on my TV. If I cannot do it with Nero 9, please suggest alternatives. I don't know if it has some kind of copy protection.
    Thank you very much for your time and knowledge.
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    Stop using bold face.

    Geez dude, what the heck is up with all this secrecy? Unless it's porn nobody cares what singer you like or where you bought the DVD from.

    Assuming you bought a legitimate commercial DVD, then yes, of course it has a region code on it AND it's in PAL. Both are likely issues for your DVD player. Your message could mean it's region 2 and PAL or it could be region free and PAL. DVD players often give misleading error messages on region code issues making it hard to tell if that's really the problem or not. If you bought this on eBay or through some Amazon reseller, it may be PAL but it's probably region free.

    We have tons of guides here which you could look for in our "All guides" section that talk about what you need to do. Basically you need to:
    1) Rip the DVD. The free DVDFab or DVD Decrypter will work fine. This will remove region coding if it exists on your DVD.
    2) Follow this guide as it's the easiest way to fake a ripped PAL DVD into looking like NTSC so a standalone player may (no guarantee) play it.
    https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/166266-PAL-NTSC-DVD-Conversion-%28patch-method%29
    Do note that this guide does not work with all players so if it doesn't work with yours, you will need to follow another guide and use a different method, most likely re-encoding the DVD. Note too that re-encoding will cause you to lose the menus and extras although if you know what you are doing you could re-encode the extras but the menus will be lost.

    I do NOT recommend using Nero at all for this task. Nero can't help you with ripping but it could re-encode the ripped DVD for you to NTSC. You're on your own if you want to do that. I'm not going to help you with that one as Nero is not very good and I feel that you'd be better served to use another method. But if you want to use Nero do your own research on how to do that.

    Finally, there is some chance that you could just reburn the DVD without doing anything to it after ripping it as that would make it a region free PAL DVD which your DVD player MIGHT play, but as you are Doctor Secret and not really interested in providing helpful details, since I don't know what brand of DVD player you have I cannot make a guess as to whether it might be able to play a region free PAL DVD or not. If you open DVD Decrypter and put the DVD in it, it will tell you if it's region free or not. If you see regions 1 through 8 listed, then it's region free. If you see region 2 only then it's a region 2 disc. If it's region free then reburning it after ripping won't help as your DVD is already region free so the PAL video on the DVD is the issue.
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