Toshiba D-R400 DVD Recorder - Is it PAL enabled?

[JEG]

I have a GoVideo R6740 DVD Recorder that is starting to scratch rings into my DVDs (yipes ) and the tray doesn't eject unless I slide in a thin object (metrocard, tracfone airtime card) under the tray and push on the various cog mechanisms.

Soo it's time for a new player. I'm thinking about getting Toshiba's low-end DVD recorder the D-R400. I need to know if it can play PAL DVDs. I live in USA so PAL enabled players are not a guaranteed feature.

I think this is different from region encoding. So I don't need a region-free player I think.

Let's just say I have a 25fps AVI file created in Europe , I convert it to a DVD and keep the original framerate of 25fps. Will the Toshiba D-R400 play it? Or give the annoying "Not NTSC", "Can Not Play Disc", or "Check Disc" error. I get these errors with some players. GoVideo DVD recorders can play any framerate (why not get GoVideo then?, well I kind of loss brand loyalty and am thinking about Toshiba now).

Every product description I can find on the D-R400 doesn't say anything about this . Does anybody own this player to let me know?

[RabidDog]

Save yourself the bother and hassle and potential quality loss and buy an mpeg4 player. cheap as chips and twice as tasty. Job done, Sorted.

https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=&Submit=Search&Search=Search&divx=1&dvdpor...y=Name&hits=50

[JEG]

Yeah I guess my needs are better met with an MP4 file playback capable DVD recorder. Philips and Samsung seem to make a better effort at supporting both DivX and XviD, as there are no strike-thru lines in the DivX/XviD column. Alot of "?"s, but at least no strike-thru's.

The Samsung DVD-R155 (US version) is available in the stores in my area. It's low-end at around $150 and looks to support both DivX and XviD. XviD videos are more common so that's the more important codec.

First it was VCD, then SVCD, then DVD, then converting MP4 into DVD, now it's just putting MP4's on the DVD.

I'm changing with the times .