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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 9:38 am
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by AndrewC75
Are you aware that, in general, DVD players from North America will not play DVDs marketed in Brazil, and vice-versa?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Region_codes

Also, part of Brazil uses a different standard for video than the US (PAL vs. NTSC)... I think this is more a function of the data on the DVD rather than the DVD player itself, but I'm not very clear on that. I'll post more if I find out...
Note that many players don't care.

We have a DVD player bought in the US.

My wife played a PAL format region-6 DVD on it, no problem. The only reason I even know the encoding on it is I tried to play it on my computer.
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