[SEL] OT...DVD,playable in the US

[Orrin Iseminger]

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It's surely in PAL format. The video standard in the U.S. is NTSC. I 
think he'll need some sort of converter to watch it. Sort of like 
kilometers and furlongs.

John

On Apr 4, 2007, at 6:35 PM, peter ogborne wrote:

> I have sent a DVD recorded here in Australia to a friend in the US .He 
> is
> unable to play it ,the message being that it is the wrong format.Any 
> help
> would be appreciated!

John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA

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DVD formats are a bag-of-worms mess.  Take a look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_format

Orrin

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