Region 1(US) Pioneer 343 question

[Betamax5]

I live in the United States and I recently bought a Pioneer dv-343 from circuit city, it plays most of my homemade vcd's fine but I have a question. Can a Region 1(bought in the US) Pioneer Dv-343 play Pal vcds (that my friend is bringing back from his vacation in europe) and have them display correctly on my run of the mill 27' ntsc tv.

thx for any help.

[homerpez]

I'd like to know this also... I don't have any PAL discs to test yet, but I have the files on my HD which are PAL size and framerate (I don't want to re-encode)....

My situation is identical: U.S., DV-343 player, NTSC format, potential PAL VCD.

Thanks!

[ktnwin]

Why don't you encode one short movie (10mins) in PAL VCD, burn it on the CD and try it. It should take less than one hour to find out.
I doubt it's going to work.

[kingsley]

It will work I have pioneer 525 uk and it plays ntsc vcds.
Just depends if the tv can switch to pal mode.

[homerpez]

My whole point was I didn't want to waste another CD before I knew one way or another...

Also, what I think we both mean is... does the player play at the correct rate and just resize the video to fit the NTSC-sized screen, or does it treat PAL VCD's as totally foreign?

You're probably right, I'll have to re-encode these clips...

[zwyx2k]

i have that dvd player and i recently burned a pal svcd it works fien nuthin wrong with it at all

[Chris Smithe]

Ok, so you can view SVCD in PAL format on that particular Pioneer, but will it work on all Pioneers? The reason I'm asking--I posted a message above about viewing PAL DVD's on my Pioneer DVC-503. If that won't work, but viewing PAL SVCD's would, then maybe I'll just try to find those instead. The quality is near DVD, and since I've been living on VCR tapes for the past 10 years, I think I'd live with the slight difference. :wink: Thanks. :)

Chris

[homerpez]

...well...

as for all Pioneers, someone else will have to add their 2 cents. I can simply confirm for Betamax5 that yes, yes, yes! PAL VCD's will indeed play, correctly, on this player, at the correct frame rate, even on an NTSC screen.

I was amazed... it happened to be the 3-part set of the LOR movie, which has seriously screwed up aspect ratio... it looked the same on TV as my monotor, so that's how I could tell it played perfectly

Thanks, all...