Posted by Oldus Fartus on 07/01/07 22:19

dgates wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:30:37 GMT, xeaglecrest@att.net wrote:
>
>> catherine yronwode wrote:
>>> Two Costco DVD players are available in the store but neither says whether
>>> it supports the PAL format in addition to NTSC.
>>>
>>> Philips DCP855/37 for $190 (8.5 inch)
>>> Panasonic DVD-LS850PK $190 (8.5 inch)
>>>
>>> Unfortunately neither the Philips DCP855/37 nor the Panasonic DVD-LS850PK
>>> has any portable DVD player product reviews on the Internet. How can that
>>> be?
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if the specification for the Philips DCP855/37 or the
>>> Panasonic DVD-LS850PK sold at Costco handles both the NTSC and PAL DVD
>>> formats?
>>>
>>> If so, which is the better buy?
>> If they have a demo model set up, you can take a PAL disc with you and
>> see if it plays. Most US models will not state whether they play PAL
>> discs or not. I have a Toshiba that says in the manual that it will NOT
>> play PAL discs, but it does. I found it by taking a disc to Best Buy
>> and trying it in every player they had.
>
> Of course, it may be that the Philips model, like my Philips, requires
> the user to enter a 5-digit code on his remote before it becomes
> region-free. So he might end up inserting his UK Jonathan Creek DVD
> (both PAL and Region 2) and find that it "doesn't work."
>
> There's a site somewhere that lists all sorts of players by their
> model numbers and tells you things like what regions and formats they
> support, etc.

Catherine did not ask whether either of those players were region free -
she asked whether they would play PAL as well as NTSC.

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Cheers
Oldus Fartus

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