Will my Superdrive play a PAL DVD ?

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Will my Superdrive play a PAL DVD ?

I have the opportunity to purchase a DVD that I haven't been able to find anywhere for quite some time. The problem is that, according to the description, it is only available in this form: "Region Encoding: ALL, TV system: PAL" .

Since my TV is NTSC (and so is my LG DVD player), I figured I was out of luck. I then thought of my iMac G5 - Will this DVD play on my iMac ?

Walt

20" iMacG5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 160gbHD, 1.25gbRAM

Posted on Feb 6, 2007 5:53 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Feb 6, 2007 5:56 PM in response to iixnay

Your SuperDrive will play a PAL DVD on the computer's built-in display. Using a television to play the DVD from your computer may require an adaptor.

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Answer 2

Feb 6, 2007 6:15 PM in response to iixnay

As Niel mentions, your iMac will play that PAL DVD, but keep in mind that it will be listed as a different region code. Your DVD drive can be switched up to 5 times before it gets locked into that last region. That could be a bad thing.

I bought a PAL concert DVD for a friend and took a different route. I used Handbrake to extract the image, then used iMovie to edit it with transitions and such, then used iDVD to create a disk with menus and everything. It looked very nice if I do not say so myself.

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iixnay Author

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Feb 6, 2007 6:15 PM in response to iixnay

Thanks. The movie (Home Sweet Hoboken) had many shots filmed on the block where I used to live. It was supposedly released in 2000, but could never be found (at least by me) anywhere.

Now that I've finally found it, I suppose I'll buy it and watch it on the G5.

Thanks again.

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iixnay Author

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Feb 6, 2007 6:24 PM in response to Eric Kracinski

Eric,

Thanks. I'll consider doing that .......

Walt

I bought a PAL concert DVD for a friend and took a
different route. I used Handbrake to extract the
image, then used iMovie

20" iMacG5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 160gbHD, 1.25gbRAM

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Answer 5

Klaus1

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Feb 7, 2007 9:54 AM in response to iixnay

There is one more alternative: get the DVD converted to NTSC..

That way you will have a backup ⚠ and it won't interfere with the region setting of your G5 - to which there is no cure.

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