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  1. 9th Oct 2008 18:17 #1
    dredle1
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    Hi everyone!

    This may be an easy question, but it's never come up for me before. Can I watch a PAL dvd region 2,3,4,5,6 on my PC? What program should I use? I have Windows Media Player, Quicktime, Sonic CinePlayer and I think I also have Powerdvd. Is there anything special I have to do. And I'm not interested in converting it to NTSC if I can just watch it on my PC. Thanks!
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  2. 9th Oct 2008 19:12 #2
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    You can watch a PAL DVD on your computer just fine. There is nothing special to do.
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    Computers are format agnostic if you just want to watch the video on your monitor.
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    You may have an issue with the region. Your DVD drive can change regions 5 times before it's locked, there's ways around that though and I'll let other more knowledgeable people fill you in.
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  5. 9th Oct 2008 21:22 #5
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    Why do they do that with the region (only allow 5 changes)? Is that something Hollywood forced on them?
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    Pretty much, yeah. It was like early drives being speed limited when ripping to try to discourage copying. In most cases all this can be got around with a quick firmware update. If you don't want to risk that (small risk, but possible to trash a drive) then you can install DVD43 or pay for AnyDVD.
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    There's some suggestions for you here.
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    I like the term "format agnostic".
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