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>From: "Jorth, Cindy" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5725.5 multi-standard dvd players (!)
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:24:13 -0700
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Great information Judi. Thanks!
Cindy Jorth
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> Subject: Re: #5725.5 multi-standard dvd players (!)
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> --- Forwarded Message from Judi Franz <[log in to unmask]> ---
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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
>
> ------------------
> 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
>
>
> > >>> [log in to unmask] 09/26/00 02:51PM >>>
> >--- Forwarded Message from Judi Franz <[log in to unmask]> ---
> >
> > >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
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