I am sorry but I do not know where to post this I hope it is ok to do it here. I have a dumb ? about buying a dvd and I thought I would ask all the great people and experts here Well to start I was look for ER season 9 and it is not available in the us. My ? is. Kinda two part. One is it illegal to buy it from Australia or Europe and have it sent here. Two if it is not and I did. would it be different then what will be released here in the US and will it work on my DVD player. See I told you Clueless OLD lady hehe I just want to make sure Obviously if its illegal then I will not buy it Thanks in advance for you help Again sorry for posting this here but was not sure where to ask this ?
There's nothing illegal about it. One problem is, that if you live in North America, your standalone DVD player only plays disks marked as 'Region 1'. Europe is region 2 and Australia is region 4. That's problem 1. Problem 2 is that, if you live in North America, your TV set can only display what is called 'NTSC' video. Most of the rest of the world uses 'PAL'. So even if you had a player that could play another region, it must also, somehow take the PAL video and output an 'NTSC' video signal to the TV. All of the above, regarding the DVD player can be hedged around with exceptions and special cases, but that is what generally applies. The case is different if you wish to play a another region coded disk on your PC's DVD player. The PC does not care about PAL or NTSC - it will display the movie, the catch is that the DVD player may be 'Region Locked'. If it is locked to e.g region 1, then you are allowed to make a number of changes to play the different region disk - but once you have made all the allowed changes (typically 4) then the player is locked to whatever region you made the last. This would be a nuisance to say the least. Again there are ways to circumvent this problem, but since this was a general question, I restricted it to a general answer.
