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It will if you have a region free dvd player. Many of the newer players in the U.S. are now region free meaning they will play any area's dvds. Originally, dvds were made region specific because it allowed the motion picture studios to control various aspects of release such as content, date and price on a region-by-region basis.
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That is because once you play a dvd in a dvd player the regional settings are finalized in the player firmware itself and hence it doesnot play us dvds.
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I'm guessing 1 of 2 reasons. 1-It's on a different format or 2-you bought it on vacation from a guy on the corner because it was super cheap and there is nothing on the disk to begin with.
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European DVD is set to high def playback on European standards. IF you do not have HDTV, I doubt if the DVD player is going to work on our standard TV's here.
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Wow at the answers so far. All DVD players, unless gray market products, are set to a specific region. This is mandated in the DVD standards. These DVD players are set to a region from the factory and should never change, it has nothing to do with the first disc that was put in it. There are some DVD players that can hacked easily, either by a remote combination or a firmware hack. From there, you could hardware chip the player, but it is not easy or cheap. It is as simple as the DVD that you bought in Holland is region 2, while the US is region 1. Your region 1 DVD player simply cannot play region 2, which is why it will not work. Even if you could get your DVD player to play region 2 DVDs. You have another obstacle, Europe uses PAL while the US uses NTSC. The NTSC TVs we have here in the US are unable to handle PAL signals, while the same goes for PAL TVs not being able to handle NTSC signals. A handful of DVD players have the ability to convert PAL to NTSC and there are devices out there that can convert PAL to NTSC, but they don't come cheap. I should mention, Japan, who is in region 2. Is the only other major country that uses NTSC as their standard. So, imported movies from there would work find a regionless DVD player and NTSC TV. European PAL or anyones PAL for the matter of the fact IS NOT high definition. It has a slightly higher resolution than NTSC, but it isn't even close to HD. You do not need a HDTV to play any DVD, all will work perfectly fine on a standard TV. If your DVD player can easily be hacked to be come region free. It will be on this site: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks
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May be 220 volts.us models are 110
