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I’m in USA and Planning to buy a DVD guitar video lesson created in UK in PAL format. I read somewhere years back that playing a PAL formatted DVD more than 5 times will cause the DVD drive to permanently maintain the PAL format
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
You can set DVD regions on the optical drive 5 times, including the initial setting. After that, it is locked to the last setting.
The DVD regions have nothing to do with the video format (NTSC/PAL/SECAM).
The DVD regions are mainly for use with movies from the studios. Setting a region on a DVD disc is optional for the manufacturer. I would expect a guitar lesson DVD to be all regions/region free/region 0, but you should check with the retailer.
You can set DVD regions on the optical drive 5 times, including the initial setting. After that, it is locked to the last setting.
The DVD regions have nothing to do with the video format (NTSC/PAL/SECAM).
The DVD regions are mainly for use with movies from the studios. Setting a region on a DVD disc is optional for the manufacturer. I would expect a guitar lesson DVD to be all regions/region free/region 0, but you should check with the retailer.
Ok, clarification...Perhaps i confused the issue. According to retailer’s website, the DVD is PAL format only. Now do I understand you to say I have to “manually” set something (region) on my optical drive? If yes, then I do not intend to do this. I only want to be able to view the lesson without causing my optical drive to default (after 5 uses) to PAL. Thx for the response
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