AUSSIE members, advise needed about region 1 DVD's..

[blinky88]

A friend of mine is in the USA and I would like to purchase a few DVD's not available in AUstralia, they are region 1. All of my players are region 4.

I have played NTSC DVD's without problem and NTSC is the format in the USA, Canada and the Bahamas, however the NTSC discs's I have played, did not have region 1 mentioned anywhere on the cases.

Has any member ever bought DVD's movies whilst in the US and did they play here in Australia.

[guns1inger]

All the time, and I author NTSC disks. So long as your player is not region 4 only, you will be fine. Most players and TVs in australia will play NTSC and PAL, so region is your only issue. If you can't all region disks, remove the regions with DVD Decrypter first, then play. For a olng time Region 1 disks were all I bought because region 4 disks often didn't get the features of the US releases. Not so much of a problem now, so my R1 purchases are for disks not released here.

[Vejita-sama]

I live in the USA not Australia, but I import a lot of region 2 and 3 DVDs from HK/Japan. Basically you need to either get a region free player, a player where you can change the region, or flash your player to be able to do one of the above (see the DVD Hacks section to the left).

The other option is to rip the DVDs, make them region free, then reburn them. But unless you have a DL burner/media that means re-encoding/transcoding and taking a quaility hit. Plus it's a pain in the a&&.

A surprising number of standalones have a 'loop menu' where you can change the region, so I would try that first.