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>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:39:41 -0700
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Judi Franz <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5725 multi-standard dvd players

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Thanks to everyone for their replies on and off the list!

Since I thought that the DVD players were all I needed, I don't have 
enough $$ in the budget to purchase either PAL monitors or signal 
converters. Carmen Greenlee came to my rescue yesterday on the phone 
to tell me about a unit she had purchased which reads all region 
codes as well as PAL and NTSC and outputs everything to NTSC. Best of 
all, they are about half the price of the other ones I had purchased, 
so I can buy more of them! She told me she had 6 of them up and 
running beautifully in her lab.

Here's the info:

The company is I.N.C. Technologies in Hollywood. Website is 
http://www.inc-tech.com (***warning - you cannot complete a purchase 
if you access their website on a Mac computer due to java issues; to 
purchase online, find a PC). They accept credit cards (at UCI we use 
campus-issued MasterCards which are linked to our departmental 
accounts) and are super-friendly on the phone. Talk to Gail.

Phone number (323) 512-8730. I purchased 5 of the Infinity DVD model 
LD-2060 for $269.00 each plus $25 shipping (for all 5 - I am just 40 
miles south of LA so folks further away should expect a larger 
shipping charge). Expecting my shipment either Friday or Monday. They 
had 3 units in stock but more are coming in on Thursday so I told 
them to wait and send my whole order at once.

The 2060 model does everything I want - they have a new 2080 coming 
out in a month or so which adds a karaoke feature. I think that may 
be fun in language classes, but I opted not to wait.

Hope that is helpful to others in the same quandary, and thanks again 
to everyone!


Judi


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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
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>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