--- Forwarded Message from Maria Elena Canales <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:43:11 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Maria Elena Canales <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5725 multi-standard dvd players
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

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HI! I also purchased four code-free DVD players (Pioneer) and run into the 
same problem.  The foreign DVD's do play with our NTSC monitors but only in 
black and white.  I ended buying a PAL/SECAM TV monitor and now you can see 
the colors!





At 03:51 PM 09/26/2000 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:25:57 -0700
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >From: Judi Franz <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: multi-standard dvd players
>
>Following up on a discussion from this time last year....
>
>After searching the archives and based on several recommendations
>therein, I purchased 3 Panasonic A300MU units, only to discover when
>they arrived that they require a PAL monitor in order to play PAL
>DVDs. Now, please help me understand this a little better before I
>ship these back.....
>
>For those of you that have purchased these units, is this true? I
>have faculty returning shortly from DVD-buying excursions in Europe,
>and I need to play these DVDs here on our video projectors and
>regular TV monitors. Do I have to worry about PAL/NTSC in addition to
>region codes?
>
>Help, and many thanks in advance!
>
>
>Judi
>Judi Franz, Director
>Humanities Instructional Resource Center
>269 Humanities Hall
>University of California, Irvine
>(949) 824-6344
>http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hirc