If i were to get a dvd from somewhere in England and bring it home to the states would it work on my dvd player?
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yes they do. the good thing is that movies come out earlier there.
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There are hacks to make it work (like buying a region free DVD player), but on standard region locked DVD player it will not work.
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It should, because a friend of mine sends me DVDs from Amsterdam, Holland and they work for me.
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When my sister was studying there, she tried to have a movie night on her laptop. But they put in the DVD and it didn't work because she had a US laptop and DVDs in England are on the PAL format and the US uses the NTSC format (or so goes my understanding). You can get DVD players that play both, but it's the sort of thing you have to search for. Most people won't have it, so I wouldn't assume that a DVD you bought in England would work in the states.
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DVD's have a region code on them. Your DVD player also has a region code. Those codes must match in order to play. It's easy enough to override the region code on your DVD player. The harder part is the difference in UK and US video standards. UK - 625 lines/frame US - 525 lines/frame UK - 25 frames/second US - 30 frames/second UK - PAL color standard US - NTSC color standard Now, when a DVD is created, it has to be electronically 'compressed' to fit on the DVD. There is a code used for the compression. Your DVD player has a decompressor, which is the same code. If the video has been compressed according to one standard (made in the UK) and uncompressed by a different standard (played in the US), then it's not going to work very well. Think of it as a number code for text where A=1, B=2, and so on where Z=26. But when someone on the receiving end decodes it, HIS decoder has A=26, B=25, etc and Z=1. The message won't make much sense. There are converters so that a standard in one country can be recorded to the standard used in another country, but such converters cost extra money, quite a bit of money. If anyone gets a DVD from a country that uses PAL, and it plays in the US, then the DVD has been specially made and is likely marked NTSC. It would not play very well in the orginal country.
