How can i tell if my DVD Player is PAL DVD compatible?

Question

I'm ordering a DVD from Australia and it says works in PAL enabled systems. It says it may work on US DVD players but it might be black and white. How do i tell if my DVD Player(regular and portable) will work with these DVD's?

My DVD Player is a Emerson DVD player model number EWD7003 and manufactored in 2003.

My Portable DVD player is Trutech DVD player model number PVS12701 and manufactored in 2006

Answer 1

no it will not there are very few that actually will they are technically illegal but if you go out and by the cheapest dvd player you can find.....like an insignia that will work basically all manufacturers put a chip in the dvds just so they will not work with multi formatted dvds the cheapest dvd manufacturers just didnt want to waste the money. hope this helps.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure there's nothing illegal about playing back a PAL DVD in North America. It's defeating the region encoding that may be a violation of something, though probably not a real law. Look for a setting under something like "TV type" in the DVD player setup: the choice should be something like "NTSC"/"PAL"/"Auto" Set it to NTSC and you'll have a proper colour picture. If the DVD is anamorphic widescreen, some players have chipsets that can't handle simultaneously doing the NTSC/PAL conversion and the anamorphic unsqueezing. You may be able to work around this with the aspect ratio adjustments on your TV, though.

The Emerson may already be region-free. If it isn't, consider just making a copy of the DVD with some program like DVDFab, since that generally defeats all restrictions. Sometimes that's just easier since then you can play it on almost any player, not just the region-free one.

Here's a hack for the Trutech:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/trutech-pvs12701/7231

Answer 3

In the settings there will be an option for PAL if it's compatible.