Playing NTSC DVD-R on PC

[PeeJayGee]

Can anybody help me on this one, I have just had a Digital8 home movie that was recorded in America, converted in a shop (in the UK) onto a DVD-R, and I am guessing that it was recorded into NTSC, the DVD Recorder (Panasonic/don't know the model) in the shop played it back, but unfortunately the guy in the shop was a bit scathey when it come to knowledge, so I brought the DVD-R home, expecting it to work in my DVD Player, thinking that my player supports NTSC (as the manual doesn't say it doesn't) and it didn't work. So I tried it on my PC (I have a SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621) and it won't even read it in as a CD-Rom (like you can with normal DVD's), nor play on DVD Software, I am totally stumped, I was wanting to read it in, and convert it to VCD for family members, has anybody else had this problem and/or has a solution.

Thanks in advance.

[Craig Tucker]

It's not an NTSC-PAL issue if that was the case it would play but in black and white. Sounds to me like a media issue. The shop has used a disc that none of your hardware can play.

As far as I know just about every uk DVD player can play NTSC media

[brownriceboy]

therz nuffin you can do about it

panasonic and sony has gone seperate ways in making DVD media

so from now on, make sure your DVD-ROM and DVD player works with the media

goto Ricoh website and it'll say which companies are supported by which type of media