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Last night I finally got a chance to watch "Shaun of the Dead" on DVD. I tell you, it's one of the funniest films I have ever seen- it's good as a horror flick as well, but mainly it's a comedy . It's described as a rom-zom-com on the box, and I can't think of a better description myself. Some of the DVD extras are excellent as well.

It might not be widely available outside the UK, but if you have access to a multi-rigion DVD player and internet shopping anything is possible...

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I just received a DVD player, and it has a button to choose between NTSC and PAL. I know these are different TV types. Does my DVD player have a Multi-Region function?.

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You just witnessed the difference between an 'Actor' and a 'Reactor' Gwyneth is a 'people person' she works well with people to interact with. Acting in front of a blue or green screen for the whole movie takes an actor with great imagination. One of these days 'Hollywood' is going to realise that it takes a whole lot of acting talent to act and react to nothing but a blue screen. No matter how good the director is, it's still a reflection of the actors imagination. I think that the actors in big SPFX movies are always underrated. I also think that 'Big Movie Sets' are fast becomming a thing of the past. So the actors better get good at acting in a blue room becase they won't have the splendor of a grand set design to lean on and draw inspiration. Yes indeed, you can see the difference when you place an 'unimaginative' actor into a FX movie.

Anyway, nuf said, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If I'm not mistaken, PAL is how the Europeans view their television signals. Not really sure of the difference between the two, but I don't think it has anything to do with a multi-region viewer. I know back about 7 years ago when I first got my Playstation, you could either buy an adapter or buy a multi-region machine to play the Japanese games. I haven't really checked since I got a PS2. There may be something similar out there for those who have one that will let you play dvd's from the different regions.

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Maybe they just designed one unit for sale in both the US and Europe.

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NTSC and PAL are just two different display outputs. It doesn't necessarily mean your machine is multi-region, but it doens't mean it isn't either.

A lot of DVD players are multi-region these days, and a lot of those that aren't can be made multi-region very easily. Sometimes it requires a little hardware work (opening it up and doing some light modding, or maybe flicking a switch or something) and sometimes it is as easy as getting a "secret" key-sequence off the internet to access a hidden menu or type in a special code.

Do some research on the internet for your own particular model of DVD player. Just go to google and type in the exact model of your DVD player and the words "region hack", for example http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&a...07+region+hack

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While I was in Europe a few years ago our housesitter stuck something in my playstation (without asking) that he said would let me use games from anywhere. I've never used it though. I played Wipeout2097 twice when i got back, finished it and gave my games to someone for christmas.

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Just for the sake of argument, let's say I could modify my dvd player. Where the heck do you get the other region dvd's? I know you're going to say E-bay or some other internet service. Since I don't have a credit card to use or want to participate in Pay-Pal, how would I get my hands on these discs?

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I saw hero and spider-man 2 today.

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I think it is illegal to sell DVDs in the "wrong" reason... or if not illegal, then very highly discouraged.

No need to modify your DVD player at all. Just get a DVD-ROM drive for your computer and get good software that can decrypt any format DVD. I posted some links in the DragonCon thread if you are interested... A video card with TV Out options can help, as you can then ouptut the movie to a TV (maybe use an RGB converter if necessary) and not have to watch it on the computer monitor.