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I'm interested in buying a DVD of a British documentary. However, it's only available in PAL format.

I have an iMac running OS-X 10.5.8. I bought my iMac in the States.

Is PAL compatible with my iMac?

Gareth
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I've found this thread on the Apple forums.

The gist appears to be that it will play, but you'll have to change the region of the DVD drive (unless it's a region free DVD) and you've only got 5 changes before the drive locks to the last region selected.

ChrisF
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Can't really tell, but I can say that I never had any problems playing the couple of NTSC DVD's I have on any hardware, including a 1999 laptop, a 2009 laptop and 2 DVD players, all of which were targeted at the German market (PAL).

Region codes could be a problem, though, unless the DVD is region-code free or you have appropriate... tools. ;-)

DevSolar
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I am thinking you can probably use HandBrake to make a copy of the contents of the PAL DVD and watch it from hard disk.

Otherwise ChrisF's answer is correct.

Andrew J. Brehm
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