DVD Copy - Different Region?

[josh.c]

I am about to order an American DVD as I live in Australia and this particualr movie isn't released here. Its for a fathers day present and i wonderred if i can import it, rip it, and burn it in the Aussie Region. I have a sony dru510 +- DVD Burner. Any information would be much appreciated.

[mrsoul1952]

It's pretty easy to change the region. I'm in the US and renting lots of
Region 2 DVD's and I rip them using DVD Shrink and DVD Region Free
and burn them using Nero. DVD Region Free tricks my burner into letting
me change the region. But I still have to use a region-free DVD player
to play it back because of the PAL --> NTSC problem.

So it depends on if you just need to change the region which is pretty
easy or change from NTSC to PAL which is pretty time consuming.

[josh.c]

from the looks off the dvd i want to buy, its ntsc (Region 1) and in australia we use Pal (Region 4). i.e. i assume im going to have to convert it to pal? how would i go about doing this? thanks

[vitualis]

Most if not all Australian DVD + TV equipment can play back NTSC material just fine. Don't convert to PAL unless you have to.

Regards.

[kantazo]

NTSC doesnt mean Region 1, and PAL doesn't mean Region 2 or 4.
Just remove the region and it will play OK.
Just rip it to your HD with DVDDecrypter and it removes the rerion code automatically.
I've done it hundreds of times.

[Baldrick]

Please post dvd to dvd in our dvd to dvdr forum. I'm moving this one.