As you can see, they’re not quite speaking the same language.
In the Americas, we use NTSC (National Television System Committee), transmitting 30 frames per second with each frame comprised of 525 individual scan lines. Most video tapes from the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia use PAL (Phase Altering Line), transmitting 25 frames per second with each frame comprised of 625 individual scan lines. Think of it as a foreign language that your American tapes just don’t speak. It’s provider locked or in the case of PAL, region locked. It’s the same concept of why your Sprint iPhone won’t play on AT&T’s network. After all, unlike VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Video8, Digital8, MiniDV, MicroMV Betamax and U-matic, it’s not an actual video format, rather a standardized viewing format that allows video tapes to play in specific regions.
I’m guessing that the Napster gentleman assumed the same when he figured Mick Jagger wouldn’t want his share of the ad revenues when Napster doled out free copies of ‘Brown Sugar’ to anyone that hit the site and asked for it…Mick couldn’t expect anything if the Napster guy listened to his music himself, or with his friends, for fun…but the minute the Napster guy derived ad profits from giving free copies of the song to anyone, just becuz some guy happened to download it onto his website’s database, Mick would make sure he got his share of the money too…nonetheless, the simple addition of one letter changes the entire meaning…like the letter ‘M’ added to the word ‘ANY’…and makes the whole statement seem much less harsh and more reasonable…’relinquish MANY subsequent rights of ownership’ sounds better, and would likely be much more accurate….for instance, I couldn’t very well ask you to pay for a copy of my best-selling novel after accidentally giving you a copy for free…or exercise much control over how you chose to market it, maybe…but I’d sure-as-shootin’ collect my royalties from any and all revenues you chose to create by dispensing my novel.If you’re not sure what PAL is, trust us when we say you’re not alone.
Hmmm…I just can’t help it…I stumbled onto your site in a search for DVD player info and read the question/comment form terms, and I just had to ask this… If I wasn’t paying attention, or I was drunk, and I happened to accidentally dump my newly published, and best-selling, novel into your comment form, thinking it was a window for my own data program rather than your comment form, I would ‘relinquish ANY subsequent rights of ownership’ to my novel, and you would be free to print up millions of copies and make a fortune selling them on the street, or seriously increase your ad revenues by advertising that you had my best-selling novel available for free download, thus attracting millions of hits for the free novel, while also attracting hordes of high-paying advertisers that are eager to expose their ads to such a large audience…and then take me to court, because some people would still be buying my novel from the bookstores, and sue for my remaining royalties claiming that I relinquished my royalty rights from the ownership of my novel to you when I accidentally dumped it into your website’s comment form? If that happens, cycle power or even unplug it overnight to reset it. Please note that any time you mess with these sort of devices, there’s a chance things will get messed up. If you want to change your player to just a specific region code, replace the 0 with the region number you want. The site also adds this note: “The 0 in the sequence above represents the region code. Your player is now region free! Put in a DVD and enjoy! ?.The number 0 will appear on the lower left side of your screen.Press the following sequence on the remote: 7 8 9 OK 0.It’s not a great DVD player funcionality-wise, but it plays every kind of DVD and CD I have tried, which is very nice.įrom sites like Popular I get the impression that the Philips DVP642 can be made into a multi-region, multi-format DVD player, but given what you’re saying, I expect that there’s some tricky stunt or fiddling you need do to have it switch and give you access to all its capabilities.Īccording to the site Video Help, here’s what you need to do with your remote control to make your player region free: I went through just this situation with some UK DVDs I bought a few months ago, and I bought a Philips DVD player that was already advertised as mutli-region, multi-format.