US DVD Player that plays PAL discs but outputs in NTSC

[SMHarman]

Does anyone know if such a product exists?

I want to get my mother in law (in the US) a DVD player for Christmas, but one of the reasons would be so she could play the DVD home movies (of her Grandson). It will also need to be 110v

These are filmed on a PAL camcorder, edited etc and burned onto PAL formated DVDs, but her TV is NTSC so I can see big problems here. At the moment she can play them back on her iBook, but a bigger screen etc would be nice.

[hech54]

This may help....or do more harm than good....you decide...
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewto...ght=converting

I know the quality sucks compared to DVD's...but VCD's are VERY friendly in "non native" circumstances. I'm here in Europe....family in the U.S.....I send both VCD's and region free PAL DVD's over to them....but I knew ahead of time that my JVC DVD player I left behind for them plays PAL(R0)DVD's....the colors are a bit funny....but viewable.

[RWANDREWS]

Cyberhome & SAMPO are easily hacked to allow any region playback, & they automatically convert PAL to NTSC. If you're not using region coded disks, you don't even have to do that. Moreover, they are cheap & readily available on the US. Lots of other players are also capable, but I only know these for certain. At $40 for a cyberhome, you can't beat it !

[hech54]

Cyberhome & SAMPO are easily hacked to allow any region playback, & they automatically convert PAL to NTSC. If you're not using region coded disks, you don't even have to do that. Moreover, they are cheap & readily available on the US. Lots of other players are also capable, but I only know these for certain. At $40 for a cyberhome, you can't beat it !

I would still want to SEE IT....in the DVD Players Menu setup.
OUTPUT - NTSC
- PAL

[Addix]

I have a Philips DVD724 http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.p...arch&#comments which does everything that you need it to do. There is an internal PAL<=>NTSC converter that works beautifully (retains picture quality perfectly, etc). In the DVD setup, you can choose either "automatic", "PAL", or "NTSC" output. I've never had any problems with it at all...it's played pretty much everything I've thrown at it. It is also very easily Region hacked (the hack is on this site). Literally 4 button presses on the remote and it's region free.

If you choose to buy it, you can get it for around $100. Don't get ripped off paying $100 more for the Multi-standard/region version when you can easily do it yourself. It's the same damn player.

[donpedro]

I have Mintek 2580 (110V) and Daewoo 5800 (110/220V; remote controle region free hack). Both can play PAL DVD (region all) on NTSC TV.

[donpedro]

I would still want to SEE IT....in the DVD Players Menu setup.
OUTPUT - NTSC
- PAL

What do you mean ? I thought that he need DVD player that can pla PAL DVD on NTSC TV. Whay would you need PAL OUTPUT ?

BTW: SMHarman, I think the best wuould be to buy it through internet directly in US and ship it to them directly from seller.

[sumibas]

i have the Cyber home CH-DVD 300 39.95 from bestbuy local store. Plays all NTSC or PAL TV or PAL ON NTSC , Region hack avilable by remote

[hech54]

I would still want to SEE IT....in the DVD Players Menu setup.
OUTPUT - NTSC
- PAL

What do you mean ? I thought that he need DVD player that can pla PAL DVD on NTSC TV. Whay would you need PAL OUTPUT ?

BTW: SMHarman, I think the best wuould be to buy it through internet directly in US and ship it to them directly from seller.

I meant that I would want to choose the output. In case I want to CONVERT PAL to NTSC (or vise versa). I don't give a damn about the TV it's connected to.

[FulciLives]

The best stand alone DVD player for doing PAL to NTSC as well as NTSC to PAL is the Cyberhome CH-DVD 500

You can choose to output in the same video format as the DVD you are playing so you can output NTSC as NTSC or PAL as PAL or as I said you can have the player do the conversion from PAL to NTSC or vice versa.

The Cyberhome CH-DVD 500 is amazingly cheap considering it does the best conversions I've seen. The price is only $79.95 USD if you order direct from the CYBERHOME WEBSITE

For more information on this player visit the CYBERHOME forum at the NERD-OUT message forums.

Good Luck!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman