Even if you already have another "main" DVD player, if you plan to regularly watch PAL DVDs, you're better off saving yourself the trouble and buying a region-free player that will format convert.

Hi..I've read the A/V FAQ, and have one question... how do DVD-ROMs address the PAL/NTSC issue ? In particular, the Pioneer 106s.. My understanding is region settings and PAL/NTSC are two separate ...

A DVD formatted for the NTSC market. Prior to digital television, NTSC and PAL were the two major analog TV formats, each with different frame rates and lines of resolution. When DVDs were introduced ...

The image differences between NTSC and PAL games don’t matter much these days, but they used to be a big deal in the late 20th/early 21st century. Since North America and Europe developed different ...

The CS4954/55 is a digital video encoder featuring multi-standard support for NTSC-M, NTSC-JAPAN and PAL. It offers multi-standard teletext and wide-screen signaling support, as well as an on-chip ...

The inherent differences between NTSC and PAL unfortunately means that European audiences were often treated to the worse version of most video games. It hasn’t been until recently that the NTSC/PAL ...