if it wont play let us know what make/model you have and we can find you a temporary hack to play it- usually just a combination of buttons on the remote to make it temporarily multi region.
France has a different system for their colour TVs, so you might have a problem with that. If you're lucky your DVD player will convert it from SECAM to PAL.
SECAM/PAL was only relevant for broadcast material, not DVD recordings...and is no longer an issue, anyway...it was only relevant for analogue set-up and France went digital (DVB-T) several years ago.
Thanks for that gingejbee. Many years ago a colleague had a video tape that was in the wrong format; I could play it on my machine but couldn't save the output in PAL. I wondered if the problem still existed - clearly it doesn't.
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