PAL DVD cannot play on NTSC player?

Yup a PAL disc willl not play on an NTSC player/tvs (there are some players that will have both PAL and NTSC, but not many people have in the U.S.)

Hey JPNG,

thats a good question!

i think its a 2 part answer.

i KNOW you need a TV that is able to play a PAL or NTSC to be able to play either.

as far as the DVD player goes, i have never thought about that, BUT all the DVD players i own (personally and at work) are dual standards players (see how i have never thought about it).

i would be interested to know also.

can someone with only 1 standard player try this for us.

very interesting!

Mike M. 🙂

For NTSC:
Most people in the USA have NTSC ONLY DVD Players. This will NOT play a PAL DVD. Most people in the USA have NTSC TV's and a if they did have a PAL DVD player, it would play the DVD, but would not show up right on the TV.
Many NTSC monitors like my Sony can switch between NTSC and PAL, etc.
I have a PAL DVD player here at work, but it is 220V and i had to buy a converter to down convert it back to 110V.

Then there is the rest of the world which has it together. Sort of. Most PAL countries will have a DVD Player which will do multi system playback for both NTSC and PAL. And their TV's will switch between NTSC and PAL. For example South Africa and Australia.
But you are pretty much barred for the most part in the USA for playing a PAL DVD. We just don't do PAL, only NTSC.

Then there is the whole region code thing to add in to this as well.

What I would suggest in this case JPNG (in regards to your friend) is to watch the DVD on his computer.

i know that is the DVD-R is Region 0, so he wont have to worry about changing his regions in the software.

the CPU doesn't care about PAL or NTSC (as in refresh rate or resolution).

i knew you needed a Multi-Standards TV, but i wasn't sure about DVD players.

you learn somethign new everyday 🙂

Mike M.

There are actually a lot of DVD players around in North America which can play PAL DVDs and translate on the fly, so you can watch PAL movies (of any region) on an ordinary NTSC TV. Just do a Google for "regionfree"

Obviously, they can play NTSC movies too.