How to reformat PAL DVD into NTSC DVD

I have a bunch of PAL DVDs which appear to be unprotected or country coded. They play great on the Mac DVD player but won't play on any of my other players. How about a way to simply reformat please.
Bob

If the DVD's are retail movies, meaning they are probably encrypted, Toast won't reformat unless the digital file is unencrypted and the region code is 0.
You can use Mac-the-Ripper to decrypt and then use Toast to re-burn the DVD. (MTR is shareware and may be hard to find-it's illegal to decrypt retail movie DVD's.) You can also use Popcorn to burn the DVD files. Both programs are sold by Roxio.
PAL discs are usually Region Code 2 or 3.
US and Canada is Code 1.
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