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  1. I've got a rather strange problem. I live in Region 1 and have some R2 DVD's that I want to watch on my standalone player. The movie is a DVD5, about 4.3gigs, so I used DVD decrypter to make an ISO and burned away. Now, the weird thing is, the backup plays just fine on my laptop DVD player, but when I pop it in my standalone I get an error message that says "Check TV system", yet it works just fine on my laptop. This is the first time I've tried to backup a R2, but I've made many a successful backups of R1 DVD's. Any help would be great, cause I'm totally lost. Thanks.
    Oh, I haven't done any type of firmware hack on my laptop DVD player, so it's still region locked (there isn't a firmware hack for my particular player).
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    thats because ur makin and exact iso of the dvd so it will still be in region 2 format what u can do is just rip the files to the hard drive and make video and audio folders and burn it to a blank dvdr with record now or primo prass and it should play fine cause when u rip it to the hard drive it should make the files region free
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  3. I just tried that, and with no success - I get the same error message when I pop it in my DVD player - "Check TV system"
    So, I've tried to make an ISO, I've tried to rip all the files under Mode -> File, in DVD Decrypter and with no success!!!
    Argh, what am I doing wrong, and what can I do to remedy this? Anyone??
    Thanks
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  4. I'm not positive about this, but it may be due to a PAL/NTSC conflict. Most NTSC TVs can't play PAL disks, and a lot of standalones have problems with that too.
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  5. PAL vs. NTSC could be the problem, esp with the 'check TV system' error message. So check to make sure that you disc isn't PAL (which many R2 discs are).

    There are a lot of discussion/guides on converting PAL -> NTSC
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  6. Ahh, yes, thank you. That's exactly it - it's a Danish movie and Denmark is PAL, I'm in the US which is NTSC. D'oh! Didn't even think about that, thanks for the info though.
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