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Originally Posted by Lew
I think the main reason our DVD players will play NTSC discs is that region 2 includes Japan as well as Europe and they use NTSC in Japan. PAL-playback DVD players do seem to be getting more popular Stateside though. I have a friend in San Diego who has several players that'll convert PAL to NTSC as his family are huge Anglophiles and buy loads of British DVDs from Play.com
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Actually, I read an article in a DVD magazine that suggested it was simply because it's considerably cheaper to maintain one manufacturing line that manufactures DVD players that can do both than it is to maintain two manufacturing lines that can each manufacture DVD players that can play PAL or NTSC.