NOC / Hemmings DVDs in NTSC format

Has anyone else had trouble getting them to play on a TV DVD machine or MAC/PC computer?
What worked?

I have tried various machines/computers and it seems these are not your standard DVDs.

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I got the engine and gearbox dvd from the club a few years ago (so yours maybe from a different production batch) an they work ok for me but im in the UK . I am not well versed in the details but i do know America has a different dvd format system to Europe which I guess is your problem.
Contacting the club itself may be your best option. They may know how to deal with the issue or if you have just got these from them you would hope they'd exchange for the correct format.

No problem on a PC. It will depend on what region you have on your DVD player though, as the US does not like multi-region players. It used to be that you could swap regions 5x before the OS locked in therror last one as final.

There are 2 issues.

1. PAL vs NTSC which is a TV formatting issue 25 frames per sec, 625 lines vs 30 frames per sec 525 lines. PC's can handle this one easily and modern TV's in the UK can cope with both automatically.

2. Region, USA is Region 1, UK is Region 2. Even on a PC this is restricted on commercial software including MS but some software allow you to change for the first few plays before committing you to permanently fix.

This is what I do which is to use non commercial software.

If you copy the DVD in full to a hard drive (they are not copy protected, at least mine aren't) and then use VLC Media player on the IFO file inside the video_ts folder it does not bother with regions and will play it fine.

I have the NTSC version which is zone 1. The problem is that no disc Icon appears when I put it in my computer, and my MAC ejects it automatically after about 30 seconds. My TV DVD player doesn't read it either. I got it to play once on VLC software on a friend's computer but cannot get it to replay on any of my machines.

Sounds like the disc is no longer reading properly.

Disc is purple in color.

My Toshiba DVD player says "Incorrect Disc" and my Mac computers optical drive won't even read it. Have contacted the club before and they said they had no problems in the past, so thought I'd check here.

Purple sounds like they made it using a PC DVD writer and these can end up making a disc only readable on the writer that was used to make it. Had the same problem when a dvd writer went kaput, the new would not read those made on the old one.

I have a NTSC version which plays fine on my NZ PC and Panasonic DVD player to a PAL TV, though we allow multi-region players here. IIRC it is purple.