NTSC videos to PAL

[EternallyGrateful]

Like many others I suspect, we have stacks of videos of the grandchildren when they were young that we now need to convert to a different format to preserve our treasured memories.

 

These videos were taken when we lived in the USA and we now live in England. We brought a NTSC video player with us and we want to play them back on the computer. We are not computer savvy and we don't know where to start! We have windows 10.

 

Questions:

 

1) How do we go about playing NTSC videos on our desk top computer with a Windows 10 OS?

 

2) How can we convert them to PAL DVDs?

 

3) How can we make this conversion while still retaining as much picture integrity as possible?

 

Thank you in advance (see my screen name) http://www.cnet.com/bundles/cnetcss/images/forum/emoticons/happy.gif

[KenB]

Hi and welcome to FreePCHelp :)

 

Sorry for the slow response.

 

This is not my particular area of expertise - but I will try to help as far as I can.

 

The reason why your computer cannot play the DVD is that it is probably a regional problem.

DVDs bought in USA probably have a region 1 code embedded which makes them unreadable on region 2 machines [ UK ]

 

To play your USA DVD on your Win 10 machine [ I assume that this is a UK machine ? ] there are 2 options.

Download VLC [ Free ] and install it.

This is a media player software that will probably be able to get around the regional code [ it may take a little time ]

click here

 

The other option is to install "PassKey Lite"

click here

This should automatically bypass the regional code allowing you to play the DVD

Again you want the Free version.

You should be able to play the DVD on any media player software.

 

I would install VLC anyway as it it a very good media player. [ I have it ]

You may have to right click on the DVD and select "Run With" then select "VLC" otherwise it may default to Windows Media Player

 

Let's see if this allows you to play the DVD and then we can move onto your next question :)