Originally Posted by signals

DVDFab will read discs from any region in a drive coded for any region. It will not play them in realtime, however, and will not convert PAL->NTSC. As GJ said, this really should be in another sub-forum. You can get a region-free standalone player that also does the PAL->NTSC conversion for about US$50. If you watch a lot of these, that's the way to go.