Region 2 DVD burned onto a region 1 disc?

[westwingsw]

I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered before, I tried searching for it but I couldn't get anything to come up.

I recentely bought a Dell computer with a 4X DVD+R/+RW burner and I wanted to know if it were possible for me to buy a Region 2 DVD, rip it onto a DVD+R/DVD+RW disc, and then play it in my DVD player here in the U.S.

Or, is that not possible? What I would want to do was buy the current Region 2 DVD's of West Wing from Amazon UK and then burn them so I can watch them on my region 1 player.

Would I just follow the instructions from burning a normal DVD or is this process more involved/not possible?

Thanks a lot for your help.

-Scott

[letitbleed]

If you rip with DVDecryptor it will strip region coding for you

[Gil T Pleasure]

But your end result would still be PAL disc, right? You would still need a PAL capable standalone DVD player, correct?

[garryheather]

Indeed - if you do not have the means to watch a PAL source, you would need to re-encode the video to make it NTSC.

Some authoring apps will do this for you, but with odds and sods downloadable from the Internet, which in many cases will mean freeware or shareware type programs (blessed are the codemakers ), you should be able to do this and then re-multiplex the video with the original audio and away you go.

[jzmax]

Most DVD player are capable of playing both ntsc and pal disc without problems

[garryheather]

Of course, it's part of the DVD Specifications.

The issue here is the poor guy's TV... they are not usually quite as forgiving.

(Note for the European's out there - your recent TV will probably handle PAL and NTSC, however the American market doesn't accept PAL quite so readily. Some DVD players can fudge their output with a crude form of standards conversion, but the quality is often variable to say the least due to the change in resolution and colour / color (!) space encoding).

[drewson99]

actually, my Apex 1500 converts the PAL to NTSC before it gets to the TV, so the TV isn't an issue for me (or anyone else with an Apex, and probrably other models.)

[Dennis1968]

Try this trick. I have successfully ripped and converted sereval UK issued DVDs to play on many different US only/ non firmware upgradable DVD players. after ripping the contents to the HD using Smartripper 2.41, i used IfoEdit .95 to remove the region code restriction and replaced the PAL header with NTSC headers. Them Burn them onto a 4.7gb DVD+R. So far have not ran across a DVD player that will not play them.