--- Forwarded Message from David Herren <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:21:57 -0500 >Subject: Re: #701 SECAM DVD, is there such a beast? >From: David Herren <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ There are no SECAM DVDs, only PAL and NTSC, plus of course the disc regions. On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 03:09 PM, LLTI-Editor wrote: > We've just purchased a DAEWOO DVD-5800 Mutli-Region DVD Player with > PAL conversion and are finally able to watch some DVDs a professor > purchased in Spain a few years back. However, before I announce on our > faculty listserv that professors can now bring back DVDs from their > overseas adventures, I'd like to know if there is such a thing as a > SECAM DVD? The player I bought does PAL conversion, but the > documentation does not mention SECAM, and I've not been able to > confirm the existence of SECAM DVDs after running a few Google > searches. Was European integration not supposed to gradually eliminate > the SECAM standard? Are French DVDs PAL format or are they still > SECAM? /david -- david herren - shoreham, vt us na terra solsys orionarm "These terrorists acts and, you know, the responses have got to end in order for us to get the framework--the groundwork--not framework, the groundwork to discuss a framework for peace, to lay the--all right." -George W. Bush, Crawford, TX, Aug 13, 2001