Going to hook my PC to TV for Region free, am I missing anything? (1 Viewer)

[Brian E]

Hi all,

I just did a small upgrade on my computer. I just upgraded my old DVD-ROM to a new LiteOn 16X and made the 16X Region Free. I've got Region Killer so that Power DVD still thinks it's R1. I also just added a Radeon 8500 which has a TV out. Now if I understand the posts I found while searching all I should have to do is hook the computer to my receiver with a composite video cable (regular 25" TV, nothing special) and hook my SoundBlaster Live (the old original one) to my receiver with digital coax and that should be it. If I understand correctly I'll be able to play PAL DVDs without worrying about any kind of conversion? And I should get DD/DTS through to digital output of my sound card? I know quite a bit about computers, but when it comes to hooking them to a HT I'm clueless.

My equipment is:
Athlon 1800+
MSI K7T Turbo 2
640MB SDRAM
28.5GB, 30GB, 60GB Hard Drives
16X LiteOn DVD-ROM (made region free)
40x12x48x LiteOn CDRW
AOpen 40X CD-ROM
Sound Blaster Live (like I said the old original one w/daughter card)
ATA 66 controller card
Floppy
Zip 100

Thanks in advance!

 

[Patrick Sun]

As long as PowerDVD can handle the PAL-NTSC conversion, you should be in good shape.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Since your card displays what is on your monitor, and your computer doesn't care about PAL and NTSC, it is never a problem

 

[Brian E]

Since your card displays what is on your monitor, and your computer doesn't care about PAL and NTSC, it is never a problem

That's what I got from some older threads, but just wanted to make sure.

 

[Patrick Sun]

But, still, it depends on how well PowerDVD does its job at playing both types of DVD video sources.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

PAL looks great on Power DVD