Toshiba SD200E Help?

[cnagra]

hi

i have a very old toshiba sd200e dvd player.

i have a few questions, i dont know if it will play NTSC dvds? I know it plays PAL, and im thinking of buying a new dvd player.

to play both PAL and NTSC does it have to be multi region, the reason why im asking this is because some avi files will only burn as NTSC and not PAL. and to conver them is a very long procedure.

thanks for the helo and do you advise i but a new dvd player?
any reccommendations?

thanks

[daamon]

i have a very old toshiba sd200e dvd player.

Wow!!! That takes me back to when I first bought my Toshiba SD200SE from Richer Sounds... It's the single tray version.

i have a few questions, i dont know if it will play NTSC dvds? I know it plays PAL, and im thinking of buying a new dvd player.

According to this article, it does. If I remember rightly, my comparable DVD player played NTSC with no problem.

However, I also believe that it ouputs a pure NTSC signal meaning that your TV will also have to be NTSC compliant to display what the DVD player is playing.

to play both PAL and NTSC does it have to be multi region, the reason why im asking this is because some avi files will only burn as NTSC and not PAL.

The short answer is "No".

Both PAL and NTSC can be seen as specifications - they define video resolutions and frame rates etc., each having a slightly different sepcification to the other. The region encoding is designed as a way of controlling who can watch which DVDs and when - if you're in Region 1 your DVD player will be Region 1 and you can watch Region 1 DVDs as they come out. Even if a Region 1 DVD is out, if you're in Region 4 with a Region 4 DVD player - you can't watch the Region 1 DVD.

As you have a bunch of NTSC AVIs, when you encode these to DVD you make them region free - and hence any NTSC DVD player will play them.

thanks for the helo and do you advise i but a new dvd player?
any reccommendations?

Fork out the extra cash and get a DVD recorder with a hard-drive.