Maybe, if you burn a NTSC disk it has a good chance to play on a PAL player the reverse is not true nearly as often. Gerhard P.S. I thought this list had died and gone to heaven. On Tuesday, February 01, 2005, at 12:33PM, KS <ksay11081 at mac.com> wrote: >Question: > >I just had a request from a business associate for a "PAL format DVD". > I didn't think there was such an animal. I assumed that "Region Free" >DVDs would play anywhere in the world. Is that true? > >KS