Your request puts the focus on the region. But the encoding might be an issue, too. If you have an old CRT TV, it will hardly handle PAL unless your DVD- player can output PAL-DVDs as NTSC. If you use a flat screen, I assume the TV will not really care, since it must convert internally the signal anyway and I expect (but don't know) that modern LCD TVs all have electronics that copes with both NTSC and PAL input. If that isn't the case, then Toast 8 and upwards can transcode afaik. But there's a quality loss involved and it will take a long time to transcode. Björn