Dvd Questions

[wilson steer]

I have a multi-region DVD player that I bought in the LOS; it seems to play all regions, but what about NTSC format? Will it play those? Plus, will a Sony PS2 play both formats?

What about my T.V. will that play NTSC DVDs.

Thanks for all help on this one.

[sniffdog]

No, your TV won't play NTSC DVDs unless it has a slot somewhere ....

But is my experience that regular LOS players (and TVs) are able to play PAL and NTSC without a problem.

[Crossy]

Your DVD player will have a switch, either on the back or in the setup menu with positions, PAL, NTSC and auto. This sets the output format.

Here it should be set to PAL unless you have a multi-standard TV (then set it to auto).

An NTSC disk will play and be transcoded to a format called PAL-60 which your regular PAL TV will view just fine.

In The States flip the switch to NTSC and PAL disks will play and transcode to NTSC-50 which most modern US TV sets 'should' display.

Dead clever these Chinese eh???

DC