LG DVX-141 NTSC Hack

[che1959]

Ok, I bought this player in Thailand which uses PAL and now I am in the Philippines which uses NTSC. The TV we already have here only does NTSC.

I've tried looking for hacks online but haven't found anything. Hacks for the LG DK 141/Dk-142 work for this player as well, but I haven't found anything to change the output from PAL to NTSC, just a variety of region-code hacks.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance!

[hech54]

Format conversion isn't a hack. It's either a firmware update or an already built-in menu option.

[Krispy Kritter]

Many players can't do the conversion. The players that can, usually have an option in the video setup menu. Even when they do have the option in the menu, the default is usually AUTO (choices being NTSC/PAL/AUTO), so that the player will function with whatever type of display it is initially connected.

[jman98]

Many players can't do the conversion. The players that can, usually have an option in the video setup menu. Even when they do have the option in the menu, the default is usually AUTO (choices being NTSC/PAL/AUTO), so that the player will function with whatever type of display it is initially connected.

That's not at all what AUTO means. AUTO means this - send out the EXACT same video signal on the video source to the output source. AUTO is useful ONLY if you have a multistandard TV. While you are right that AUTO is the default choice, it's a bad choice if your TV only plays NTSC for example. If you have the setting at AUTO and put a PAL DVD in the player, it will happily send a PAL signal out to your NTSC TV, which won't look very good at all. They use AUTO as the default choice because most consumers won't try to play DVDs in formats other than whatever is standard for their region, so if you have a PAL TV and only buy PAL DVDs, the AUTO settings works fine for you because it always sends out PAL. If you live in the USA and only buy American DVDs, then all your DVDs are NTSC and your TV is too, so it will work fine for you as well because it will always send out an NTSC signal from your NTSC DVDs.

You are correct that players that can convert between PAL and NTSC have video options that you can change. It would be unusual for an LG DVD player to not have any options to set it to NTSC, but I have heard of players sold in Asia that could not be changed at all to display a different video format, so it is certianly possible that this player cannot be changed. That is why you need to find out if a player can be changed or "hacked" to multi-region mode BEFORE you buy, not after.

[hech54]

Again....
Region Coding(hacks) have NOTHING to do with PAL/NTSC.