PAL and Portable DVD Players: Will this one do it?
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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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Yes. It absolutely can. You hook the rca cables from the portable DVD player to thetelevision. We do it all the time!
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Yes it works fine on PAL. It is just standard TV 720 x 576 resolution with no drop out and very acceptable quality
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Hello. I bought this whilst working in the US, to play both NTSC & PAL region dvd's through my Macbook Pro. It worked! Hope this helps.
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CHECK OUT THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION!"NTSC & PAL Playback (PAL playback requires a TV that also supports the PAL format)"ie, NO. Unlike other Philips DVD players you need a PAL TV to view PAL with this player.
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Yeah, guess I'll be living with my old multiregion DVD player (a CyberHome) as well for a while yet... still hoping to reduce the number of remotes we have to deal with (I was happy that LG included program codes for a whole bunch of TVs, so I could get the LG remote to control my TV [a Philips LCD], at least!). Thanks for the pointer: here's hoping...!
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I think it shouldn´t matter since you are downloading into a PC. Then if you burn a DVD, a lot of DVD players in Europe play both NTSC and PAL
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Peter, can you share names / websites of these independent sellers of blu-ray disc players? I'd like a blu-ray disc player that plays PAL and NTSC blu-ray and DVD discs from all regions (if such players are available). Thank you.
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Your TV's lack of HDMI renders this player unusable, regardless of your receiver's capabilities. I'd recommend the 980H, but that does not perform as well with PAL conversion. There are rumors of a future model, the DV-983H, which may (or may not) support component video. Note, however, that CSS-encrypted discs will not upconvert over component. One thought though... if your TV has a DVI input you might be able use an HDMI-DVI adapter (which is what I did).
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YES! This works as good as advertised. Philips DVD players are the best when it comes to region-unlocking.It was the first thing I did to mine when I bought it.
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Yes it will definitely play UK (PAL) DVDs on a US TV and vis versa. The input voltages on these models and other dual mode DVDs tend to be dual 50 to 60 HZ / 110 to 220v inputs. All DVDs players can actually be set internally to output PAL or NTSC. I would not recommend this one due to the fact it has been internally converted to play PAL and / or NTSC and is based on a model for use in Asia where a non PAL / NTSC standard is used. I would recommend the Pioneer models as a more robust versions as they typically tend to be true dual mode players (PAL / NTSC). There is a tendency for DVD players that have been internally converted (sometimes by the supplier) to fail to a default for example if converted from an NTSC machine to also output PAL, will fail and only output NTSC. But yes it will play UK DVDs.
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Several of the video editing software products will convert to Pal . I use Sony Vegas which will do this.
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I'm gonna take an educated guess here and say this...the O!Play HDR1 media player (the predecessor to this one) play PAL video flawlessly, so this one should be able to as well.
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I'm pretty sure it cannot. I'm not 100% sure, but to the best of my knowledge, "all region" DVD players are quite expensive.
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There is no reference to PAL in the setup, only NTSC., I'm sure if you are on PAL it will be PAL. But I can only say no PAL on my unit.
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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?
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Toshiba players don't play PAL. So buying hd-dvd's from Europe would be a waste of money. I own 3 Toshiba players, A2, A30 and A35 from which none playes PAL. I email cust srv from Toshiba and they told me that the players don't have a PAL decoder onboard. Bummer!