water mark

[specialagentfraser]

hey i just got a pioneer DV 344 and its got a water mark or something what does that mean thanx

[This message has been edited by specialagentfraser (edited 02-18-2002).]

[[SD] Bob Plisskin]

what does it say specifically? a watermark is usually a companies logo to show that the product is genuine.

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[specialagentfraser]

the sales peson said that a small number of dvd's won't work because its not water marked or something

[specialagentfraser]

and i'm worried that some pirated dvd's that my mates getting me from china might not work on my dvd player its a pioneer dv 344

[specialagentfraser]

and i'm worried that some pirated dvd's that my mates getting me from china might not work on my dvd player its a pioneer dv 344

[[SD] Bob Plisskin]

right, Here in the UK I don't think such a thing exists but I might be thinking about what the salesperson meant anyway! as long as a DVD is encoded to your specific region (thats 4 for you) and to the right number of fps (PAL is what you want) then it should work with your system, however there have been a number of problems in the UK about DVDs like Gladiator which have a huge amount of data on the discs which causes DVD players which have a smaller memory to crash on certain parts. I suspect that maybe in New Zealand players are 'Watermarked' if they have sufficient memory to run all current discs.

right, now about your *arg matey* chinese discs, china has its own region (6) but it's highly probable that any pirated discs have no region (R0) and therefore will play on any player. now this does not mean however they are encoded to PAL, they could be NTSC (what the Americans use) I'm not sure what the standard is in China. This may not be a problem if you have bought your TV within the last ten years because in England almost all tellies can now display an NTSC signal and added to that most DVD players have an option to output any NTSC signal as a PAL60 signal.

right so here's what you need to do; find out whether your chinese discs will be encoded to PAL or not (look on an asian retailer probably to see what the norm is). Then if they are NTSC look on the back of your player for a little switch that should say NTSC-PAL-PAL60, if thats there you're in the clear.

but I'm not dead certain about that watermark thing, I mean the only way a disc shouldn't play on any player of the correct region is what I've stated above but I'm on the opposite side of the world to you!!

hope I helped and didn't just fuck with your head http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

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