Good DVD Decoder?

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I have a Lite-ON DVD/CD-RW combo drive and I'm trying to watch a DVD of a Brazilian movie but it says "Cannot be played because a suitable decoder cannot be found," and gives me a weblink to buy decoders. Is there somewhere I can get a (good, free) decoder to let me watch this? Thanks!
 
Never mind...guess I'm just a little too used to only using the CDs that come in retail boxes as coasters (i.e. PowerDVD, haha).
 
It might be the area copy protection on it. areas has designations, and at one time a dvd player from asia for example, would not play a dvd from north america. Im not sure if this has changed, i dont believe it has.
 
There are still different formats, as wixard said. I believe the US and Europe use NTSC and most of South America uses PAL. There is a third, uncommon format but I don't remember what it's called.
 
Originally posted by The Bryophyte
There are still different formats, as wixard said. I believe the US and Europe use NTSC and most of South America uses PAL. There is a third, uncommon format but I don't remember what it's called.
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maybe you're thinking of all the random variants to PAL (and the japanese version of NTSC)?

but generally speaking, a good dvd player can still display correctly any region
 
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