My DVD won't work!

I got my bonus dvd from europe today and it won't work, i thoguht these dvd's were region free? any advice?

Forget about the Region code in this case. The DVD form Europe is a PAL format. In Canada, you can read only NTSC format, same as Japan. So you need the DVD version from Japan. Sorry for you. Maybe somebody can help you in other way....

will dvd rom's or Burners be able to read Pal? and or convert them...

Wrong. The DVD players can read both formats, at least most of them can. It's either your TV that can't show it, or then you have a cheap DVD player that can't handle PAL - disks.

Anyway, usually the DVD players read anything, it's a question of having a multi-norm TV. Any computer should be able to play it just fine. If you want to convert it, you need to convert the whole DVD, and that's gonna take a lot of time and HD space.

Ice

Thanks Iceman!

thats strange, i have 2 dvd players and a PS2, none of them say PAL on them though, none of the DVD players are "Cheap" because they play every other format i hav ever tried...but it isnt the tv because it does say Disk error when i play them...

Where have you bought it? I heard of several people who bought at Cdwow and got an import from Hongkong. They also have difficulties with the DVD, it doesn't work at all.

Well and u never wonder why they release different releases in different end of the world?....it's not supposed to work over there. Doh!



stoney

CDwow sold the international version. They even don't say on their homepage that it is from Hongkong. We even guessed that it maybe is an illegal copy or something.

Not sure, but somehow I think Hong Kong releases are bit like south american releases, one can never know what's official and what's more or less pirated. I do have few brazilian imports, and well, they don't look like officials to me, even though they were bought from brazilian record stores.


stoney