Will it play?
I know DVDs produced for the American market won't play on European DVD players, but are all computers able to play DVDs produced anywhere in the world?
My friend Ryan the drummer's grandparents are English and he wanted me to take some photos of him and his new baby from his phone and print them out so he can send them to the g'parents.
I thought I would make a DVD instead and add some music he played that I recorded in SHS 6.

As far as I know, DVD region codes are only included if you want them to be, and blank DVD's don't have them. So you should be fine with a DVD you made yourself.

Hi,
 
Sooner or later, that difference will likely disappear. For all intents and purposes, and STUPIDITY by many European folks and companies, they are preventing the sales of their product in America by doing so, and they know they want the money from the American market, so preventing the folks in America from seeing/hearing it is stupid!
 
At the very least, the CD/Music business did not get into that silly issue, and prevented their bands from showing their music elsewhere.
 
I imagine that as time goes by, for DVD's, some of that BS will come to an end, and become totally invisible, when the European folks figure out they can gain more by getting rid of it, than they can in the "rights" for something that doesn't sell enough at all!
 
But something you create in your computer, is, generally, clear of these things and should play just fine elsewhere, the language that it was done in not withstanding, though I can not tell you the difference if the computer has Windows in Chinese or Japanese. My sister's had Windows 7 in French, and it was able to play everything just fine off any CD, but the words and translations of words it did not recognize was super bad on Power Point and such.

The reason for the PAL video has to do with the Analog signal difference when the standard was adopted. Being as European AC is 50Hz as opposed to American standard 60Hz see: PAL. Now that just about everything is digital it's seems archaic to keep applying it but it still needs to be considered. You can try and send the NTSC version if that doesn't work then send the PAL but I believe any computer ROM drive should be able to read it.
 
Most top of the line converters allow PAL conversion these days.

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
Sooner or later, that difference will likely disappear. For all intents and purposes, and STUPIDITY by many European folks and companies, they are preventing the sales of their product in America by doing so, and they know they want the money from the American market, so preventing the folks in America from seeing/hearing it is stupid!

I can't see it was in any way an act by europeans. It was the big international media companies (DVD-manufacturers) that wanted to create the region codes to prevent/slow down piracy and to be able to have some control of movie premieres and such. I think there's more demand for american products in europe than, say, for french or german indie films in the US. The point is many products are so cheap in the US, (due to large production quantities?) that the fear was Europeans would buy their DVDs from the USA, as the DVD-movies are published earlier there than in Europe. In europe the films have often 2-3 soundtracks of different languages (or a dozen published versions for different language groups) and up to a dozen subtitle files. That slows down the publication and costs money.
Hollywood did not want that their movies are already in European homes as US made DVDs when the film is coming to theatres in Europe.
All the major European films are also dubbed/subtitled in english and distributed in North America anyway.
 
I don't know how easy it is for an American  to buy from a European net shop, but many American ones don't sell overseas at all. It took me a year to get my hands on NFL DVD's because they're not sold outside US and Canada!
 
The easy way around the  code is to buy a cheap external DVD-player and set its region code to what you want.

"I know DVDs produced for the American market won't play on European DVD players, but are all computers able to play DVDs produced anywhere in the world?"
 
http://hometheater.about....a/aaregioncodesa_2.htm

Home DVD Recording

With the advent of DVD Recorders and DVD Camcorders for consumer use, the question comes up as to how this is affected by DVD Region Coding. The good news is that since DVD Region Coding is a commercial application, any DVD recordings you make on a consumer-based DVD recorder, DVD camcorder, or even a PC, are not Region Coded. If the DVD you record made in the NTSC video system, it will be playable on DVD players in countries that use that system, and the same for PAL; there is no further region code restriction on home recorded DVDs.
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PAL is used in Europe, NTSC is USA. And my cheapy video program maker can make either video, if making a video. I think music would be different if only music and that would be bit rate and bit depth on a player that can handle it.
Or the standard CD type music disc, 44100 sample rate and 16 bit depth.
That can also be used in a video codec format if using (well with my new cheapy program) and making a *.AVI file. (motion JPEG AVI file which is only 44100 anyway. (16 bit I think or trying to remember).
Well, if you have such a program then you will be able to tell.
 
 
 

Kalle Rantaaho All the major European films are also dubbed/subtitled in english and distributed in North America anyway.
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Nope, and not enough! You would figure that Spanish films would have the option, or most French films and they don't.
 
All you have to do is check an international film festival, and you will know what I'm saying! This is why I always stress to folks here in Vancouver/Portland to ALWAYS go see the way out there in nowhereville film, because you will never, ever, see that film again.

The last movie I saw in a theater was "The Rock" so I probably wouldn't fit in with the movie buff crowd, ya?