Recording from pal source ..

[iguana]

Hi everybody

Ive recently purchased philips dvdr 75 and im recording from tv (pal , europe) . I would like to send some dvds to my relatives in the U.S.A. Do you think that the dvd wil be played corectly or it will be a problem with the ntsc ? I know that my VHS movies were not dipslayed corectly but i dont know if it is the same with dvds...
thanks

[edDV]

It will be a problem unless the viewer has a DVD player that plays PAL in such a way that it can be played on a typical US TV. This is rare over here.

Multi-System DVD players are listed here.
https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=&Search=Search&multisystem=1&country=&...Submit2=Search

The PAL DVD will play on a computer (assuming no region code).

[hech54]

Yep....sending an NTSC DVD to Europe - No Problem(almost).
Sending a PAL DVD to America - Problem.

[iguana]

mmm.. so what would be the easiest way fro me to fix this? A program maybe that allows to convert fro pal to ntsc? Do you know something like that?

[bugster]

mmm.. so what would be the easiest way fro me to fix this? A program maybe that allows to convert fro pal to ntsc? Do you know something like that?

Try a forum search or read some guides, there are numerous threads on PAL to NTSC conversion.

[hech54]

If you already have a DVD Player....some of them can convert from PAL to NTSC on the fly....alot of cheaper - no name DVD Players can do this (I have one).
I live in Germany....family is in the U.S.
I just convert on the fly back to my Philips 985. Philips will accept either signal to a brand new disc.
The computer conversion methods are time consuming.

[sagafoo]

i bought a cheap pal dvd player, and record with my ntsc dvd recorder.

bam!

ntsc copy!

[daamon]

I found this in the "Tools" section: FireStore DV Standards Converter. It claims to do the job, but at a price...!