Hey thanks for all the info.
I bought the DVD from a seller on Amazon. I'm not sure why that would mean they're illegal? 3rd party, meaning that it's was bought for/paid through Amazon.com; on Amazon's item page, you click on the 'x sellers selling new and used' link. I didn't think when I bought it that it would be illegal if selling through Amazon, but who knows.
Amazon's page for the item I bought.
3rd party page (I bought the first one listed, from igotluckycds).
Before I bought, I asked the seller about video format and region code, and she said all as described on Amazon, which states NTSC (doesn't list region). I don't want to open it to find out the video format, but it does in fact state region 0 on the back. Other people that bought it direct from Amazon had no problem playing it on regular players, including the one sold by cduniverse, which is from Germany and states it's NTSC and R-0. Someone said theirs from from DDD is also from Germany, and R-0 (but didn't know video format). I assumed the one from Amazon was too, so thought the one I bought would be.
If I could confirm the one Amazon sells is from Germany, I'd have a legit excuse to return it.
I'm pretty sure the ones I got from Brazil a couple years ago were not officially licensed DVDs by the band. They weren't and still aren't officially available on DVD in any other country except Brazil. Only official releases are the
VHS and laserdisc versions. I still have the covers for them. They were NTSC, and played fine in my standalone player, which hasn't been region hacked. But the video quality was worse than my old official US retail printed VHS version.
This is one of the 2 I bought, though from an ebay seller.