--- 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]> ------------------ 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: >--- 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