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Here is a new question:

I know that there are several formats for DVDs as to whether they are destined to work in Europe or North America.

Is it the same with CDs? If one were to burn an "old fashioned" CD would it be playable in Europe or the UK?

I know cassettes were universal - I used to exchange "mix tapes" with a friend in Germany.

Just wondering..... :)
 
I'm not positive about this, but I believe that issue has to do with commercially made DVDs and is regarding licensing or some such thing. A plain ole CD (whether CDA, MP3 or any other computer readable file type) should be fine.
 
Commercially recorded DVD's are encoded with a region code. This is because a company will buy the rights to a movie or whatever for one area only and they have to fix it so that it will only play on machines sold in that area. US ones are region 1. Europe is Region 2. Having said that, it's not a serious job to get your local geek to hack the player so that it will play any region.
PC DVD drive software generally let you switch region codes a limited number of times.

I think CDs/DVDs that you write yourself should be OK to play anywhere. :confused:
 
prospero said:
I think CDs/DVDs that you write yourself should be OK to play anywhere. :confused:
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Unfortunately, not DVDs. The European Standard is PAL while in North America it is NTSC. I burned a DVD for our friends in Devon from my Mac using iDVD. I didn’t notice at the time that I had a choice between the two formats so made it in NTSC. They couldn’t play it on their home system at all.

I tried to go back and simply switch the format, but it wouldn’t let me. I would have had to rebuild the whole DVD from the ground up from scratch. I don’t like them that much. :D

There may be systems that let you change format in midstream but not Apple's iDVD.
 
iDVD? Yeesh! I am getting so sick of Apple's nomenclature - iPad, iPod, IPood...

Rowlbazzle!

I hope they get over themselves sometime soon.
 
Mar, that ain’t nothin’

In my application folder I’ve got stuff like iCal (calender), iChat, iSync, iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto and iCantbelieveitsnotbutter.

It’s all part of the package. :thumbsup: :D
 
If you have an iPhone or an iPad or an iPod and it gets broken and you have to have it repaired do you then call it an iPatch?
 
I just bought a set of commercial dvds from Australia and they worked fine.

Don't know why... they do.


Bob
 
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