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Region Free DVD Burning

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I'm in college and me and some people are making a good bye dvd for some of the exchange students here. We're gathering photos in iphoto, then sharing it to iDVD to burn the slideshow.

Yet someone pointed out that they won't be able to watch it cause their DVD players and computers are Region 2, whereas I would be burning in Region 1.

Anyway to get around this? Thanks!
 

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I don't believe that iDVD uses region codes.
 
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You won't run into an issue with regions, but you will run into issues if you're sending the DVDs to people in countries that use PAL vs. NTSC.

See this article on Apple's site for more details.
 
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Your best bet is to not burn it to a DVD to be played in a regular DVD player, but to burn it as an .avi or .mpeg

This way they can watch it on any computer, and nowadays most DVD players play these types of files as well.

GOOD LUCK!
 

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