PAL and Portable DVD Players I've got a couple DVDs from England I'd like to play on a new portable. Will this one do it? I don't see a PAL listing, but PAL may now be an old term.If not, does anyone know of a portable which will?Thanks! PAL and Portable DVD Players I've got a couple DVDs from England I'd like to play on a new portable. Will this one do it? I don't see a PAL listing, but PAL may now be an old term. » Read More PAL and Portable DVD Players I've got a couple DVDs from England I'd like to play on a new portable. Will this one do it? I don't see a PAL listing, but PAL may now be an old term.If not, does anyone know of a portable which will?Thanks! « Show Less
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You can get Philips pet824 which is an excellent model. Then you can make it region free by pressing a combination of buttons in the menu(google pet824 region free; you'll find it), and then it will play DVDs from every country, regardless if it is PAL or another region code.
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1. I found PAL listing in the set up menu so you change this using your remote control.2. I did not even need to make it region free to make it work for DVD's from other countries. Even if you need this the code is already posted by a reviewer on Amazon
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Thanks, Bishop, for your reply. I liked your last statement (very funny!). A couple of hours after i went out to get this model at Best Buy (i just couldn't wait!), a friend showed me the all-region equivalent (also from Pioneer) featured on this same Amazon site! Well, at least they claim it's all region, but seems some customers have had to get guarantees from the supplier that the unit will indeed play all types of discs. A bit confusing. ;)
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As far I Know, both player models do play PAL discs since they convert it into NTSC --- you just need a NTSC TV set, a ubiquitous feature in any US television.
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Hi Rebecca -- I'm an owner, but not an expert. A quick Google search on "region 1 DVDs" took me to the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code It looks like this Panasonic player will play Region 1 DVDs, assuming you purchased it in the USA, Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean, or US Territories. I do not know if Panasonic (or anyone else) offers codes for playing other regions. Hope this helps!
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I have a Philips 3960/37 and love it, because you can burn almost any video format to DVD and IT WILL PLAY IT! I have always over many years bought Philips DVD players because they ( the 3 i bought over the years starting in 2001 ) have always played almost any format DVD you put into it pirate or not. and every one i have bought you can easily Google and find the simple remote buttons to push to unlock the USA only region coding almost all DVD players have have. Yes they will play a PAL DVD's and it will work on a USA TV no problem. I have always bought Philips DVD plays because they are the best. Hope that helps you!
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Yes, my brother records programmes in the UK and sends them to us. We've found the Phillips dvd players work great on all formats.
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The one I have plays all the region 2 movies I've tried on it. Most were from England but at least one was from Greece and it played them all in addition to my Region 1 American ones so I don't think you'll have any problem.
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ALL DVD players play PAL DVD?????? While this does not address your main comments dedicated to region-free play, it is absolutely NOT true that ALL DVD players play both NTSC and PAL! I even recently bought a relatively expensive Panasonic DVD-Burner/multi-format Player that is pretty high end in everything and yet that does not handle PAL, so I must take exception to your glib declaration that may lead some folks who are interested in PAL DVD viewing to stop double-checking for that specification before making an unfortunate purchase.
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Look for Philips players instead. Almost all their models can be set to multiregion with the remote (you'll need to find out the "secret" code for a particular model online) and play both NTSC & PAL. Pioneer plays PAL, but only region 0, this cannot be changed with the remote, only with expensive and risky modifications to the internal circuits.
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I have also had that problem but with only one Blu-ray set. An error message pops up saying that the disc can be played only on Region 2 players only. I can only suppose that this set was produced in such a way that it would not work on multi-region players. It is the only disc I have that does this. I have loads of Blu rays from the UK and these and all others from everywhere else play just fine.
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Are you sure your HD DVD players do not play PAL? Because my A35 along with my HD DVD based notebook play those discs just fine.
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Hi Rebecca -- I'm an owner, but not an expert. A quick Google search on "region 1 DVDs" took me to the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_codeIt looks like this Panasonic player will play Region 1 DVDs, assuming you purchased it in the USA, Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean, or US Territories.I do not know if Panasonic (or anyone else) offers codes for playing other regions. Hope this helps!
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Description indicates that the unit is region free and one answer to an earlier question indicated the responder played both region 1 and region 4 disks with no problems. I am currently waiting for seller to response to request for verification as to the unit being region free and will post when/if I get a response. I wanted to verify with seller as amazon site has confusing phrasing between a unit being region free (what you want) and units being NTSC/PAL compatible which would mean that the unit could be used with either a US or a UK television set ( US is NTSC and UK is PAL)
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Yes it Does Play PAL discs, BUT, they have to be ALL region or region A/1. Same with DVD's, if they are all region PAL, it WILL play it.gerard masters
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JV - Thanks a lot! I could not figure out why my dvds wouldn't play on other dvd players. There is nothing to clue you in that you need to finalize them.
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PAL is European , right? The European DVDs will play, but NOT the blurays. It only plays blurays from the USA.
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have only used regular movie DVD's and they work fine, haven't tried reproduced ones. don't know what a region 2 pal DVD is?