Don't waste them. In fact, while the DVD player SOFTWARE like VLC PLAYER does not care if it's PAL or NTSC the drive is what enforces the regions so the fix is to have one drive at one region and some external USB DVD drive for another region.
Do not complain about this here. All this has been discussed before so if you rant, I can't hear you.
DEPENDING on the country, REGION FREE may be available in the country. Here in the US these are not legally available and some wonder why.
Bob
can play DVDs in other formats than NTSC. I also understand this is possible without any additional software. I have a fairly large number of PAL discs from Britain and our residence there and an obscure label Chinese DVD player which plays both types of disc.
How do I go about switching my laptop (Win 7 with BluRay player) over to Region 2 (PAL) and back to Region 1 (NTSC North America). Or have I mis-remembered or misunderstood the information.
Computer HP Pavilion dv7, BluRay player, DVD Multi Recorder. BTW, I assume Multi Recorder means DVD+/-, RW, CD, MP3. Anything else?
Rob

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