Can a DVD be made regionless?

[Keranu]

Yeah region lock is retarded.

[Joe Redifer]

But when it comes to 5.1 or whatever, DTS has much better quality under compression, and the dynamic range blows Dolby out of the water, and makes it sound like a music box in comparison.

That's interesting, because side-by-side listening of a movie I authored from a 6.1 LPCM source revealed next-to-no audible differences between the two.  Both were full bitrate (448kbps for Dolby Digital EX and 1536kbps for DTS-ES).  The sound track was very subwoofer-intensive and had some nice dynamic impacts here and there.  While DTS did win, it certainly wasn't leaps and bounds better.  Like I said it all depends on the mastering, and I feel that sometimes the masters are "sweetened" for one format or another.  That is why the Pirates movies sound like ass in DTS but acceptable in Dolby Digital.

The Disney umbrella of companies is HUGE.  I don't mean just Disney themselves, I mean almost anything made by Touchstone, Miramax, Pixar, etc.  Granted, no Pixar movies have been released in DTS yet, and the Dolby Digital tracks on their DVDs are nothing short of out-frikkin'-standing.

[SuperDeadite]

Region Patching in DVD Decrypter is fully automatic.  Just rip the disc into an image.  Then reburn the image, and it will be a region free disc.  There is nothing you have to do, the software is designed to circumvent region locks.

[ParanoiaDragon]

What about changing a dvd from PAL to NTSC?  I don't recall if anyone shed any light on that.  The DVD's I'm getting, are from England, they're Transformers DVD's, that, in the US, are owned by Saban, & will probably never come out here

[Black Tiger]

What about changing a dvd from PAL to NTSC?  I don't recall if anyone shed any light on that.  The DVD's I'm getting, are from England, they're Transformers DVD's, that, in the US, are owned by Saban, & will probably never come out here

For all the time involved and the fact that the audio will probably not sync up perfectly, if you have an HDTV that supports pal, you're better off just buying a cheap dvd player that does it all. My LCD runs PAL well enough that the games in PAL I tried were fully playable.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Well, I got them today, & so far, they all work!!!  They play in my dvd player, & the signal, audio, etc. is all perfect!  Go figure!  I originally tried one in my dad's dvd player, & it ran, but the signal was all jacked up, but, it all works fine on mine.  I was playing around with my dvd player a week ago, to try to figure out a code to make it regionless(since, on my particular model, I never could find a code, some sites even said there was none known for mine).  Anyways, I guess this thread ended up useless, but, I appreciate all the effort people put into trying to help me.  Still, I'll probably make backup's, & do the region change, etc. on them, so, I guess this thread will come in handy