On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 04:14 PM, Colin McDonald wrote: > > On Friday, Jan 30, 2004, at 20:43 Europe/London, Erica Sadun wrote: >> p.s. US uses NTSC. Europe uses PAL. Many *recent* >> PAL players will play back NTSC on PAL TVs. >> Not so much vice-versa, although some Asian DVD >> players sold in the US play PAL on US TVs. > > Please don't tell me that PAL is likely to be replaced by NTSC.:-) No they just have tolerant DVD and VHS players because American media is so popular.