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In Reply to: DVD players and video standards posted by Internat on March 8, 2002 at 15:53:07:

* A player which will play both NTSC & PAL e.g. Philips Q50
* A TV set which handles both formats - all Sony sets available here do and I suspect a similar situation exists in Europe. It is only in the USA where there is little demand for PAL that NTSC only sets are sold. However on the economics of scale many Japanese and other manufacturers do offer both formats worldwide.
* A player which can been decoded to play DVDs from any region - if you know how, the Philips Q50 can be so jigged using its remote. Most other players can have their software altered, but you may have to pay someone to do it.
I would steer clear of any player which converted PAL to NTSC or vice versa. This conversion is not simple and is unlikely to be done well in a commercial product. Far, far better to have a TV which handles both.
John

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