I am going to Sweden in a few weeks and am preparing a Boston/New England themed gift basket for my hosts (I live in Boston). I want to buy movies like "The Departed" and "Good Will Hunting" and "Fever Pitch" and give them as gifts.
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Technically, the DVD format is universal. However there are a few subtleties that will prevent you from giving DVDs as gifts. 1. As mentioned above, there are issues with Region coding. Unless the movies you buy are Region 0, then the recipients won't be able to watch them, unless they have a region free DVD player (chances are they don't). 2. Even if they did have a Region Free DVD player, they will likely run into a problem due to the different TV formats used. The US uses NTSC whereas Europe uses PAL. All is not lost ... if your intended recipients use computers to watch their DVDs, there's a chance that they'd be able to play these DVDs, even if they are NTSC. But I'm not 100% sure about that. ft
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