Television troubles

So I have a lot of DVDs from the United States. I also have some Icelandic language DVDs, and now that my son is here, I would especially like to watch those.

But of course American DVDs can only be played in American DVD players hooked up to American televisions. Icelandic DVDs can only be played on European DVD players hooked up to European TVs. There has to be a direct connection between two machines speaking the same language. If  you try it any other way, as it turns out, you waste a lot of money and get nothing but snowy pictures.

Comments

Valur said…
Þú þarft helst að eiga evrópskt sjónvarp og evrópskan spilara sem hefur verið aflæstur (flestir spilarar eru það reyndar). Þá er hann region-free og spilar bæði region 1 (USA) og 2 (Evrópa).

Einnig geturu niðurhalað VLC media player en þá geturu allavega horft á amerísku DVD-diskana í tölvunni.
March 14, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Björn Friðgeir said…
Alls ekki. Svona var þetta með VHS, ekki með DVD.
Evrópskur region free spilari spilara ALLA diska region 1 eða 2 eða 3 eða hvað sem er og virkar bæði fyrir PAL (fyrir evrópsk sjónvörp) og NTCS (bandarísk).
Flestir spilarar hér eru region free eða hægt er að gera þá það með lítilli fyrirhöfn
Sama gildir um amerískan region free spilara, en þeir eru sjaldgæfari, minni eftirspurn eftir þeim
March 15, 2010 at 4:40 AM
Lissy said…
I bought a european DVD player, and put a european DVD into the DVD player. But it was hooked up to my American television. Therefore the picture scrolled and was black and white.

The DVD player I bought came with a code to make it region free, so that is not the problem. The problem was the American TV.
March 15, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Jon Frimann said…
Þú þarft að athuga hvort að þú getir ekki skipt DVD spilarinum yfir í NTSC úr PAL B/G, sem er ástæðan fyrir því afhverju allt saman er svarthvítt hjá þér. Ef sjónvarpið hjá þér ræður við PAL B/G þá þarftu bara að skipta því þar.

Ef þú lætur mig fá upplsýingar um hvaða tegund að DVD spilara. Þá get ég sagt þér hvernig á að gera þetta, ef þetta er hægt á annað borð.
March 15, 2010 at 8:09 PM
Lissy said…
Well, since this seems to be of some interest, I will add in the bizarre tidbit that I got the european DVD player hooked up to my european television yesterday, and after a bit of fiddling around, it suddenly started working. Now this morning, after hooking up the sjónvarp to the TV too, the DVD no longer works. I think it is because I hit the HDMI button, only I cannot get it back off.

The silly little problems are never ending.
March 16, 2010 at 4:06 PM
Jon Frimann said…
DVD spilarar nota Scart (AV) tengin á sjónvarpinu, ekki HDMI tengin og takkana á sjónvarpinu sem tengjast því.

Þú þarft ekki að ýta scart tenginu fast inn til þess að þetta virki.
March 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Lissy said…
The technical woes continue. Today I brought a printer cartridge, which should fit in my printer according to the number on the printer and the number on the packaging, but it turns out the cartridge is meant for the UK version of my printer, and my US printer refused to accept it. Thankfully, a friend of mine advised me that I could take the ink out of the one I just bought and put it in the old cartridge I had. After a bit of experimentation, and a bit of a mess, I managed to get it to work.
March 17, 2010 at 8:10 PM
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