Travel Technology - Probably dumb UK and US DVD standard question

If i record television programmes in the UK (Pal) using a dvd recorder will it play in the US (Ntsc) on a standard multi region dvd player and standard Television.
Thanks

If i record television programmes in the UK (Pal) using a dvd recorder will it play in the US (Ntsc) on a standard multi region dvd player and standard Television.
Thanks

Most DVD recorders do not encode a region, so the player will pay it, but the TV will have to be multi-system i.e. it will have to support playing PAL recordings. In europe these TV's are more common, in the US you'd be surprised how few can support PAL or other systems.

If you're using a computer that's multisystem (or possibly any digital display), then I think you should be okay. I think, someone can probably give more detail on this, that digital TVs don't care between PAL/NTSC.

If you're using a computer that's multisystem (or possibly any digital display), then I think you should be okay. I think, someone can probably give more detail on this, that digital TVs don't care between PAL/NTSC.

You'd be amazed... I've seen $3000 LCD and Plasma units that can't display PAL...

So would a good option be to buy in the US a LCD TV screen that has a pc input and to play dvd's through a pc and the televisions pc input. Would that work.

I think it would. I know on my mac, I can play either. (the region setting officially matters, but PAL/NTSC doesn't, to the best of my knowledge)

So would a good option be to buy in the US a LCD TV screen that has a pc input and to play dvd's through a pc and the televisions pc input. Would that work.

Yes, that would work, in that case the PC would do the correct encoding for you. Also, most Philips DVD players can be made region free AND have a built in PAL-NTSC converter.

Thanks everyone,

There are a host of ultra cheap DVD players out there that can do the conversion as well as remove region coding. Check www.videohelp.com under hacks to see what you can do with one you have or are considering.

I consistantly buy dvds in Russia that we use on both Pal systems in Russia and NTSC systems in the usa. I believe it is the DVD player that puts out the PAL or NTSC encoding not the DVD.

I believe the correct statement is that the dvd player and the tv need to match up but DVD format is international unless it has a regional encoding such as many commercial movies do, but on those you just use a region free dvd player.

Please correct me if I'm wrong because I'm no expert on DVD's but my experience is that what I buy in Russia works in the usa. (note the cheaper the dvd player the better the chance copied dvds will work. The expensive ones are more likely to have copy protection)