A way to play a PAL dvd on xbox or ps2?

[JMET]

I have a PAL dvd movie I want to watch, are there any free ways I can watch this on my PS2 or Xbox?

Boot disks or the like?


Id hate to have to burn this as NTSC..

[Cheebs]

There is a Region X boot disc for the PS2. Unfortunatly, it will play every region except 2 (Pal) on your US PS2. The only way I know is to put a chip in your Xbox, flash the Bios, and load a region free DVD program.

[JMET]

Thanks, ill just have to burn this bad boy region free on a dvd-r

[flux=rad]

Actually, I think you'll need something with PAL decoding on it. The problem isn't going to be whether it's region-free or not, but if the picture can actually be displayed on the TV. I don't know much about this though, maybe someone else can help more.

[Son of Bryce]

Nah, all DVD's a encoding in mpeg2. It would be the actual Region 2 players that would be in PAL.

[JMET]

Ive done this before and at least on my t.v etc. everything worked.

You take a purchased PAL dvd and decrypt it onto your hard drive then use something like TMGEnc to remove region protection.

Repack and burn..

[Matt]

Has anybody tried using PAL DVDs on a DMS3-equipped PS2? I've installed a couple but haven't had the chance to test out any PAL movies with them. I'm really curious if it works or not.

[Viper]

Originally posted by Son of Bryce
Nah, all DVD's a encoding in mpeg2. It would be the actual Region 2 players that would be in PAL.

PAL video is higher-res than NTSC video is. I doubt it'd be possible to play a PAL DVD properly through an NTSC TV, without utilising a PAL to NTSC signal conversion device.

[Zenigata]

Matt, I've tried and I get something akin to "TV not compatible." Meant to email you but it slipped my mind. I can get the exact message if you like.

[Cheebs]

Well for the record I can play PAL DVD's on my modded Xbox on an NTSC TV. I guess there must be software signal conversion going on in there or something...