At 9:23 PM -0800 12/19/03, cathal mc carthy wrote: >If my US relations can get a low end dvd that will play a pal dvd >will thier ntsc tv sets play it? Only if it contains the proper converter. There are two components--one to read the PAL data from the disc and the second to convert it into an NTSC signal. The Apex line (and several others) will do this. -- Erica