IS NTSC compatible in the UK?

[Mr Veritas]

I have seen a DCD I want o buy on Amazon,and althought it is Region 2,it is listed as NTSC.
Checking on Wikipedia I xan see that it is a different systen to one we use (PAL) does this mean I would not be able to play it on my (standard) DVD player.
Any advice would be welcome.

[Mr Veritas]

A really big thanks EDDIE,for you very speedy answer.
Somewhere in the back of my head I thought this was the case,as I seem to remember an acquaintance with a
" multi" player.
Ah well,back to the drawing board!
It's annoying that there is no mention of anyy of this on Amazon,I suppose they expect you to know!
Well, thanks to you, now I do,
I would give you 5***** if we still had them,but consider yourself an AB star anyway!
Alec.

[ABerrant]

Most DVD players sold in the UK (and Europe) can play NTSC along with PAL. It is only in the US where you find DVD players locked to the internal standard (i.e. NTSC).

[Whickerman]

Although not listed in my dvd players books, they all play ntsc, and I've had no issues. Once you have a region 2 player you should be ok. However you may notice that the picture is very slightly (a tiny amount) bigger than usual, ie like there's a tiny amount missing around the edges, but give it 30 secs and you won't notice. I have a stack of ntsc dvds here.

[ChuckFickens]

NTSC or PAL is not relevant as long as the player is connected to the TV using either a fully populated SCART cable (with the RBB pins connected) or using HDMI (or component video, but that's rare)

It only makes a difference if they are connected using just composite or S-video.

[ChuckFickens]

* RGB pins

[ABerrant]

Chuck - the type of cable connection to the TV/Monitor is not relevant if the DVD player outputs all video signals as PAL; it is also not relevant if the DVD player cannot read NTSC discs in the first place.

[magicmerlin]

I have a Panasonic DVD recorder and I can watch both PAL and NTSC on my Samsung Plasma Tv via HDMI cable. I have to go into the Panasonic menu to change over from PAL to NTSC, but that's all I have to do.

[romko]

Most dvd players sold in Europe handle NTSC, usually detecting it automatically. Nearly all TVs made in the last decade or so will allow you to use the RGB input and will sync to the 60hz frame rate of NTSC (PAL- I is 50hz). to sum up - you probably won't have any problem.