dcwfn Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Mei's sister visited family in Guangzhou this past August. When she came back she brought a stack of music DVD/CD's and video CD's. As you might imagine I'm having a helluva time getting these things to work in the units I have for playback. Even using software that's supposed to copy to REGION 1 formats doesn't work like it's supposed to. Hence this question. Is there a single source that is any better than the others for movies, music, karaoke/video ? (in Cantonese of course) Link to comment
Don Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Mei's sister visited family in Guangzhou this past August. When she came back she brought a stack of music DVD/CD's and video CD's. As you might imagine I'm having a helluva time getting these things to work in the units I have for playback. Even using software that's supposed to copy to REGION 1 formats doesn't work like it's supposed to. Hence this question. Is there a single source that is any better than the others for movies, music, karaoke/video ? (in Cantonese of course) You can find Apex units at many discount places and they play these formats well. Or Play on computer and add the codec. http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/KLite_Codec_Pack_Standard/1094057842/2 That file will add many of the codecs you need for windows media player to play these disk. Link to comment
tonado Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 http://www.samstores.com/Store.asp?CtgID=23 Get a region free PAL/NTSC DVD player. Link to comment
LeeFisher3 Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 I picked up a region free DVD player at 220 Electronics it has a built in PAL to NTSC converter. Just looked and they have one for $69 that should play those DVD's. Link to comment
Don Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Mei's sister visited family in Guangzhou this past August. When she came back she brought a stack of music DVD/CD's and video CD's. As you might imagine I'm having a helluva time getting these things to work in the units I have for playback. Even using software that's supposed to copy to REGION 1 formats doesn't work like it's supposed to. Hence this question. Is there a single source that is any better than the others for movies, music, karaoke/video ? (in Cantonese of course) Almost none of these disk have region encoding, just get a player that can play a variety of formats. Taiwan's brand Apex (walmart and Target) have them sometimes does well for that. don Link to comment
dcwfn Posted October 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Grrrrrrrrrr.........just getting into the parking lot at Wal-Mart is a pain. Looks like a trip to Target is in order, huh? Link to comment
Don Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Grrrrrrrrrr.........just getting into the parking lot at Wal-Mart is a pain. Looks like a trip to Target is in order, huh? Check their website first, who knows what brand they have now. Plus, check bestbuy and circuit city. These brands are cheap, but work well with chinese disk. The big box stores do not always have them. Link to comment
Randy W Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 (edited) Almost none of these disk have region encoding, just get a player that can play a variety of formats. Taiwan's brand Apex (walmart and Target) have them sometimes does well for that. don Yes - almost every Chinese DVD I have is Region 0 (region free) and can be played on any player. The VCD's don't have the region encoding. Most of the Japanese or Chinese made players will play those, but the American players may not. Edited October 9, 2007 by Randy W (see edit history) Link to comment
tonado Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Grrrrrrrrrr.........just getting into the parking lot at Wal-Mart is a pain. Looks like a trip to Target is in order, huh? Most big stores won't sell these region-free PAL/NTSC players. You have more choices by getting the player on the internet. Link to comment
Don Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Mei's sister visited family in Guangzhou this past August. When she came back she brought a stack of music DVD/CD's and video CD's. As you might imagine I'm having a helluva time getting these things to work in the units I have for playback. Even using software that's supposed to copy to REGION 1 formats doesn't work like it's supposed to. Hence this question. Is there a single source that is any better than the others for movies, music, karaoke/video ? (in Cantonese of course) I checked the target website and they sell the Apex player. They work very well for these disk. VCD and Chinese DVD. Again you do not need a special expensive player, but one that plays many formats. The Apex at target is $40.00 and plays many diffeent music and video formats. http://www.target.com/gp/search/602-967744...p;x=10&y=14 I have had good luck with this brand to play chinese movies. Link to comment
tonado Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Mei's sister visited family in Guangzhou this past August. When she came back she brought a stack of music DVD/CD's and video CD's. As you might imagine I'm having a helluva time getting these things to work in the units I have for playback. Even using software that's supposed to copy to REGION 1 formats doesn't work like it's supposed to. Hence this question. Is there a single source that is any better than the others for movies, music, karaoke/video ? (in Cantonese of course) I checked the target website and they sell the Apex player. They work very well for these disk. VCD and Chinese DVD. Again you do not need a special expensive player, but one that plays many formats. The Apex at target is $40.00 and plays many diffeent music and video formats. http://www.target.com/gp/search/602-967744...p;x=10&y=14 I have had good luck with this brand to play chinese movies. The spec doesn't say it support PAL format. It may not work on some DVDs which are in PAL format. Link to comment
Don Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Mei's sister visited family in Guangzhou this past August. When she came back she brought a stack of music DVD/CD's and video CD's. As you might imagine I'm having a helluva time getting these things to work in the units I have for playback. Even using software that's supposed to copy to REGION 1 formats doesn't work like it's supposed to. Hence this question. Is there a single source that is any better than the others for movies, music, karaoke/video ? (in Cantonese of course) I checked the target website and they sell the Apex player. They work very well for these disk. VCD and Chinese DVD. Again you do not need a special expensive player, but one that plays many formats. The Apex at target is $40.00 and plays many diffeent music and video formats. http://www.target.com/gp/search/602-967744...p;x=10&y=14 I have had good luck with this brand to play chinese movies. The spec doesn't say it support PAL format. It may not work on some DVDs which are in PAL format. PAL is more important for tape, i am not what it means for DVD adn VCD. I have seen hundreds of movies bought in China VCD and DVD. They all played just fine on most DVD players. The APEX played everything. Sony did okay, had some trouble. The apex website even had some codes to play every region disk. Link to comment
Randy W Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 PAL is more important for tape, i am not what it means for DVD adn VCD. I have seen hundreds of movies bought in China VCD and DVD. They all played just fine on most DVD players. The APEX played everything. Sony did okay, had some trouble. The apex website even had some codes to play every region disk. Di9fferent number of scan lines, and different update frequency. A PAL format video must be converted to appear correctly on an NTSC TV. Most DVD players these days do this. Link to comment
Don Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 PAL is more important for tape, i am not what it means for DVD adn VCD. I have seen hundreds of movies bought in China VCD and DVD. They all played just fine on most DVD players. The APEX played everything. Sony did okay, had some trouble. The apex website even had some codes to play every region disk. Di9fferent number of scan lines, and different update frequency. A PAL format video must be converted to appear correctly on an NTSC TV. Most DVD players these days do this. That is what i mean by saying "what does it mean anymore" most devices just work, it does not matter if the disk is ntsc or pal. China or USA. It is just work. The chips are smart adn does the work. Special devices are not needed anymore. Normal ones work very well. With the older tape players we had to be very careful, but now the devices are much smarter. Does more for less money. Link to comment
tonado Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 http://www.dvdcity.com/codefree/codefree-ntsc-info.html Link to comment
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