PAL to NTSC conversion. (Can't watch Star Wars trilogy)

[bigfart]

A friend of mine gave me the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD for Christmas.
But since he's French, the DVD are region 2 PAL.

I can watch all DVD on my computer here in the US but my living room DVD player won't play them (it's a Toshiba SD-K600). The TV displays an error message regarding the region since my DVD player will only accept region 1.

I ripped one of the DVD with DVD Decrpypter and burn a copy with DVD Shrink. I thought that DVD Shrink had the ability to make the disc region free but once I played the copy, the error message regarding the region is gone but this time I have an error message telling me that the disc is not NTSC.

What should I do? Is there an easy way to make a region 2 PAL DVD play on a region 1 NTSC player?

Thank you so much for any help!

[JamieBecks23]

u can hack it

[bigfart]

How do I hack my TOshiba SD-K600 player?
I never found the info online !

[RowMan]

Hacking a player usually just reprograms it to ignore region coding and/ or remove copy protections. It's the actual hardware that takes care of any needed TV system conversion. If your Toshiba can't play a PAL disc even though it's region free, it probably means that the player just wasn't built to do it in the first place.

If this is the case, you can convert the DVDs to NTSC, but you're better off getting an NTSC version and backing up that. After all, you do own the trilogy discs now.