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Originally Posted by Stuart
I did have a Sony DVD player and Pioneer DVD player, which have now been replaced with a Samsung DVD recorder, and a JVC dvd recorder. All four play both NTSC and PAL disks fine, and will covert to PAL if needed (although all my TVs will do NTSC playback as well, so it's not a problem if they didn't anyway).
I don't know if it's the same in the US, but generally any DVD player sold in the UK will play NTSC discs, as long as either the disk is not region coded (which if recorded on a DVD recorder is likely to be the case) or the player has been unlocked.
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Nope - they're not as 'advanced' as this lot over here LOL. I'm from Canada (same video formats and equipment as the US), and while I can buy and play NTSC formatted discs and Videos from Canada and US and play them here, over there their TV's and video equipment cannot decode the PAL into an NTSC signal.
Though the other poster has said that his recorded videos work fine, so I may try recording a programme here onto DVD and seeing if my family can play them. Obviously as you say region coded DVD's cannot play (and you cannot cheaply - if at all - unlock regions in North American players to my knowledge - unlike here where most companies build in a code to unlock them) but maybe they can cope with just a recorded DVD. I'll have to give it a go.