Have with you that the British TV series DVD that you go for ages. Now you are at home in the United States. He looks forward to putting in the DVD and watch the series. Something is wrong! All you can see the view, "Wrong Region" or something similar. You are very surprised to see that. Is your DVD player does not work? Or is the DVD is defective? What is it? The box that the DVD is saysthe disc is region free, which means that it is intended to region 0 or region. Does it not mean that the DVD player anywhere in the world will? Well, good news is that there is something wrong with the DVD player or DVD. The bad news includes the ID region experienced the wonderful world of DVD region coding, or sometimes called. If you ask me what is the DVD region coding, and why is it necessary?

A Region Region FreeFree, Zero or Region All Regions disc should be played on a region locked, but there is a problem of compatibility between PAL and NTSC. For example, suppose you have a region free DVD in the UK and try to play in an American NTSC players. DVD will not play because the disc is in PAL video format. There is a misconception that when the DVD is based on the digital format is less than your player business game NTSC or PAL. All formats of digital videobased on PAL or NTSC.

But who are PAL or NTSC video systems? Let me explain briefly.

Countries around the world use one of three main TV broadcast standards. These three principles – NTSC PAL and SECAM. But these three standards are incomplete with the other. Consider region free DVD that you bought in England. He has not played well on a DVD player because it is in American NTSC format DVD PAL video. Thismisunderstanding that I have somewhere in my discussion of the above apply, as I said, all digital video formats, including DVD are still based on PAL or NTSC video systems.

Let me briefly PAL or NTSC systems for better understanding.

The first color broadcast in the U.S. went in 1953. It is based on NTSC – National Television System Committee standard. NTSC is used by many countries of the Americas and Asiain countries like Japan. NTSC runs on 525 lines per frame.

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) system beginning in 1960 and is available in most European countries except France. PAL uses a bandwidth wider than NTSC Chanel, which has better picture quality. This system operates at 625 lines per frame.

Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire or Sequential Color with Memory (SECAM) standards beginning in 1960 and was implemented in France. Send SECAM colorinformation in sequence, but uses the same bandwidth as PAL. The rule runs on 625 lines per frame.

For a better understanding of the following services:

NTSC standard

NTSC-M system

Lines / Field 525/60

Horizontal Frequency 15.734 kHz

Vertical Frequency 60 Hz

Video Bandwidth 4.2 MHz

4.5 MHz sound carrier

PALStandard

PAL SYSTEM

B, G, H PAL

The PAL

D PAL

PAL M

N

Line / Field 625/50 625/50 625/50 625/50 525/60

Horizontal Frequency 50 Hz 50 Hz 50 Hz 50 Hz 60 Hz

Color sub-carrier frequency 4.433618 4.433618 3.582056 4.433618 3.575611 MHz MHz MHz MHz MHz

Video Bandwidth 5.0 MHz 5.5 MHz 4.2 MHz 6.0 MHz 4.2 MHz

Sound carrier 5.5 MHz 6.0 MHz 4.5 MHz 6.5 MHz 4.5 MHz

SECAM Standard

SYSTEM SECAM B, G, H, SECAMD, K, K1, L

Line / Field 625/50 625/50

Horizontal frequency 15,625 kHz 15,625 kHz

Vertical Frequency 50 Hz to 50 Hz

Video Bandwidth 5.0 MHz 6.0 MHz

Sound carrier 5.5 MHz 6.5 MHz

As the multi-VCRs, DVD players will not convert video standards. A-standard PAL DVDs will not accept a disc in DVD format SECAM.

Is there a point to consider for your despair at the end. If you have a multi-system TV that can receive both PALand NTSC video signals, you can probably see that the DVD you have from the UK. You can also use a converter that converts an NTSC PAL and vice versa. This way you can see that DVD from England, played on a NTSC TV with the converter does all the processing for you. You can also buy a DVD player region free, also known as Multi-region DVD player or a code free DVD player with built-in Video Converter rules.

The so-calledregions mentioned, you hear so much when buying a DVD player or catagorised is as follows:

1st Region 1 – USA and Canada

2nd Region 2 – Europe, Japan, Middle East and Africa, Egypt, South Greenland

3rd Region 3 – Taiwan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong

4th Region 4 – Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean

5th Region 5 – Russia (okay, former Russia)Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia

6 Region 6 – China

In a traditional sense, says statistics show that people in Region 1 DVD only get to see. Region 2 will have a different region to wait 6 months, 3 years people will have a DVD to watch their favorite movies.

DVD has given rise to home entertainment. Players and DVD movie to steal the world as prices lingerieboth products. The concept of home theater come together with the excellent quality of audio-visual offerings from DVD. The whole room in many homes remain confidential for the home .. But with the success of the DVD is the dirty secret: region coding region of the lock.

Why this code, you know. Well, tell us that is how they want to copyright protection. But a secondaspect of this coding region has recently been extended. This is probably because the pricing of DVDs of different areas.

According to many reviews, code execution, a violation of WTO free trade agreement, which is reflected in competition law. The Australian Competition and Consumer Adoption of a serious vision of this encoding and warned that such a coding may violate the Trade Practices Act A similar declaration was made by the Government of New Zealand. So basicallyDVD players in their country to be sold by the 0th region Region 0 DVD players are required to take 1-6 region simultaneously, there, the possibility of a flat disk, irrespective of which region belongs.

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