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I am based in the UK and am trying to get hold of the Gerardo Nunez Encuentro DVD, I can only seem to find it at Mundo-flamenco.com but am reluctant to buy off this site as its all in German. Any suggestions as to where to get it would be much appreciated.
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From: Living in Granada, Andalucía
RE: Best place to buy Nunez Encuentr... (in reply to Escribano)
We were just talking about this last night. Our DVD player gave you four chances and the DVD you put in the fourth time defined the format. However the code can be broken and now our DVD player plays everything. We just had a set back as our local shop selling Emilio's CDs German Perez the guitar maker has a fairly new Sony machine but it wont play Emilio's CD as it is a CD/DVD format from our own duplicator. We called Sony who said yes they had restricted the machine to stop piracy but no longer made that model. Yet the model was only bought in 2001 so how come they had not anticipated DVDs and being able to play your own downloads from your own computer. They were so intent on stopping pirates yet all they acheived was restricting their customers.
Hey by the way Simon, just had a bloody earthquake here, it rocked the house, twice, I saw the walls move. Harold reckons it was only a 2.5, nothing like the 5.5 he experienced a few years back on the coast when he was 25 kilometres from the epicentre yet it kicked him off his chair in the studio where he was working.
Ah well better to have lots of little ones than the big one that the Moros legend says will bring down the Alhambra. As I only just got an unrestricted view of the Alhambra ( they had to cut back the dead palm trees in front of my terrace) I would hate to lose it so soon.
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From: England, living in Italy
RE: Best place to buy Nunez Encuentr... (in reply to Kate)
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Hey by the way Simon, just had a bloody earthquake here, it rocked the house, twice, I saw the walls move.
Yikes! El Valle is on a fault line and many were killed last century. My house is built to more modern standards, supposedly to resist tremors. Hope we don't get to test it to soon.
BTW - not all computer pressed DVDs will ever play on home computers or tv systems. There are many combinations to watch out for e.g. DVD-RW DVD +R or -R and manufactures etc. Nothing to do with piracy, just technical incompatibilities.
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From: Washington DC
RE: Best place to buy Nunez Encuentr... (in reply to jonnyf)
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Eh? DVDs do not have PAL or NTSC restrictions, they are digital - DVD players do. The discs have regional protection codes.
PAL and NTSC have to do w/ frame rate of your TV monitor. If you only watch on the computer, you would not think of it as a "restriction" since the computer converts automatically. There are some players nowadays that play both, but here in the USA, my DVD player WILL NOT play PAL videos, even region 0. It actually says "region restriction" on the TV. In addition to this we have the coding (regions 0-5). Most code free players are designed to play both Pal and NTSC, so again you would not notice this if you have one. In the USA I can only watch NTSC region 0 or 1 on my TV. On the computer I can watch PAL, NTSC, Region 0 or 1, or choose to change my code (5 chances then it locks).
Lots of good Japanese vids are NTSC, region 2. The codes were developed by movie industries in the USA so the Japanese did not get the stuff out for home viewing before the movie companies wanted (The Japanese maybe don't pay royalties like w/ music transcriptions, but get the stuff out fast and cheap). Now they have region free players so folks in different regions can watch, but again same problem. So USA Movie industry now encodes some movies that are "region 1" so they won't play on the region-free players. How about that!
Nunez vid is double sided for the reason it is meant to be watched world wide. (I can't watch the PAL side on my TV). Therefore it is also region 0.
RE: Best place to buy Nunez Encuentr... (in reply to Ricardo)
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Eh? DVDs do not have PAL or NTSC restrictions, they are digital - DVD players do. The discs have regional protection codes.
DVDs can be either PAL or NTSC encoded. Its true they are digital, but the mpeg stream on them can either be encoded as PAL or NTSC.
If you play it on a computer, you can play either PAL or NTSC, the computer is completely digital and doesn't care. If you play the DVD on your DVD player & TV, TVs are analog and hence can only take one format (unless they are multi system). Plasma & LCD screens are digital and often have digital inputs as well as analog.
The region protection is just a digital code on the media which the music industry put in place to control DVD distribution dates and prices around the world. Most players have hacks that can turn them to region free, i.e. they will ignore the region protection and play any media.
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PAL and NTSC have to do w/ frame rate of your TV monitor.
Not just. PAL & NTSC have different frame rate, but also different resolution. The also have a different color encoding giving them different color spaces. Those in the industry joke that NTSC stands for Never The Same Color and PAL stands for Picture At Last.
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not all computer pressed DVDs will ever play on home computers or tv systems. There are many combinations to watch out for e.g. DVD-RW DVD +R or -R
True, there are different formats for storing the data on the media and not all drives can read all formats. Typically though drives that are put in computers read them all. DVD players though are more picky.
These formats only apply to the DVD media you can write on using a DVD burner (in a computer). The read only DVDs which are factory manufactured can be read by any player.
The Nunez video has one side PAL and one NTSC. I play it on my computer (imac g5) with no problem. Its region free (wasn't protected with the region code, so you can play it anywhere). It can be played by any player.
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Nunez vid ... is meant to be watched world wide. ... Therefore it is also region 0.
Region 0 means its region free. Any player can play region 0.
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