What is the best method to convert Blu-ray (bluray) to DVD?

A new version of DVDfab 9 came out, DVDFab 9.3.1.8, that is compatible with 10.12. I just downloaded it and it installed without a problem, however when I run the program it tells me that my trial has expired, which is weird since i've never ran this program before, nor have I tried this program before.

I will try to give it another go, maybe contact dvdfab support to clean up this matter, once I get my blu-ray disk. I will also give Handbreak, VLC, and MakeMKV program a chance as well.

I will ask the studio again regarding the conversion to PAL system. If the price is right I'll get it from them, maybe just get one disk and then copy them on my own, hopefully being able to change my region code on my burner. I'm being very hopeful that it will not have a limit on how many times I may change it. It looks like the process of conversion NTSC to PAL is very complex.

I appreciate all your help guys. If you have any other suggestions and opinions then I'd love to hear them. My main concern now is the NTSC to PAL, I want to send some disks to Europe for my family to watch them. I prefer this way so they would be able to watch them on their TV as opposed to uploading it to youtube and have them watch it on their computer.

Thank you,
Greg.

I'm prepared to bet that you will not be able to change the region code on your burner. North American DVD hardware is generally hardware locked to region 1, mainly because there would be no advantage in changing it. The original reason for region codes was to prevent movies from being made available to English speaking audiences while they were still playing in theatres, so the UK and Ireland joined Europe in region 2. From memory, Australia and NZ are region 4, to prevent early release of Japanese region 1 disks.

There used to be software available to reset the counter on players with firmware region locks, but that had to be used before the fifth, and final, change.

By the way, region switching on players capable of it was generally achieved by simply loading a disk. If the disk was from a different region and the counter hadn't reached 5, the region would switch, the counter would advance and the disk would play. So you need to be careful, unless you can locate software to reset the counter each time you change regions and prevent the counter ever reaching 5.

KevinJS said:

I'm prepared to bet that you will not be able to change the region code on your burner. North American DVD hardware is generally hardware locked to region 1, mainly because there would be no advantage in changing it. The original reason for region codes was to prevent movies from being made available to English speaking audiences while they were still playing in theatres, so the UK and Ireland joined Europe in region 2. From memory, Australia and NZ are region 4, to prevent early release of Japanese region 1 disks.

There used to be software available to reset the counter on players with firmware region locks, but that had to be used before the fifth, and final, change.

By the way, region switching on players capable of it was generally achieved by simply loading a disk. If the disk was from a different region and the counter hadn't reached 5, the region would switch, the counter would advance and the disk would play. So you need to be careful, unless you can locate software to reset the counter each time you change regions and prevent the counter ever reaching 5.

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I've read this too, I believe on wiki.

Before changing anything to my hardware, I will contact the manufacturer and see what they say.

At one time there was software available to reset the region counters back to one. It accomplished that by zapping and resetting the player firmware. However, the movie and Hollywood industry got wise to it and forced player manufacturers to prevent that from working. As a matter of fact, attempting to reset the firmware on players for US and Canada will brick the player.