Sixto, it may be that the issue is not PAL/NTSC but the DVD region code. Each DVD has an optional regional code that restricts its playability to DVD players with a matching code. This keeps folks from buying legit, cheap DVDs in say, Beijing and importing them for use or legit sale in the USA, where we have players and DVDs with a different code.

There are some cheap DVD players out there, no longer sold commercially, that had hidden accessibility to the various copy protection schemes. Apex made one that is a hackers dream. For a while they could be sold on Ebay at more than the orig sale price. I think Apex avoided lawsuits by rendering the hidden screens inaccessible in later versions of the player.

Anyway, I think that defeating the region code is your best bet.

The thing that p***es me off about DVD's is the near impossibility of making what I think is legit backup. You gotta hack the disk and I think hacking the disk is illegal, though copying is not.

But, I lucked into one of those old Apex DVD players a year ago. The downside of the Apex is that it is not an electronically clean player. Its framing is not reliable and it cannot play some disks with non-standard copy protection. But, you can do some stuff that the movie industry really, really doesn't want you to do.

Google it for detailed info.

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