Will a standard US DVD player play a "worldwide" region encoded disc? Will a US DVD player play a PAL formatted disc?

tia.

You should be able to watch it on a PC though.

Damn, you're up early.

Its noon here.

If your trying to take an existing PAL DVD and burn it as a NTSC DVD it is kind of a pain in the ass.

You have to rip all the video off of the PAL DVD then transcode it to NTSC. I know NeroVision will transcode though.

Got a 9:00AM with Honeywell, ugh.

and send them to his dad in the states to watch on his regular DVD player.

Not burning with computer.. Going with a real DVD recorder deck hooked to the Sky+/PVR system.

If not he's going to have record as PAL. Rip the DVD on a PC then transcode and burn. He could also get a DVD player or a TV for the US that can convert PAL to NTSC.

There is not a super easy way. The best bet would be to look for a recorder that can accept a PAL signal but burn to NTSC. He could probably find some thing from one of those places that sells hacked DVD players.

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