Confession: I'm scared of NTSC

[mark84]

Okay, i've joined because I've seriously got myself worked up about ntsc! I ordered my R1 DVD,people might think its silly but as I'm a novice to this stuff I decided to read up on what i thought was something simple before i spent my cash. Now I thought it all seemed real simple and that I can purchase any cheap region free dvd player for ?25-?30 and watch my DVD but is that really the case? Since I orded the R1 disc, I've discovered nasty and scary terms, RCE - some places say its comming in with force, others say its died out and applied to about 20 DVDs in total. NTSC 4.43- what my TV is capable of, so it can handle a NTSC disc?
Yours worridly...Mark.

[Widegoat]

You'll be fine. RCE is irrelevant in the majority of cases. If your DVD player is region free, chances are it can be set to a specific region. So if your disc is RCE protected to region 1, simply change your DVD player to region 1, and it'll play fine.

[rmoxon]

RCE is mainly used on Sony disks I think, and Ive never had problems with it on any of the 100 plus R1 dvd's I own.

And yes if its a NTSC compatiable 4:3 TV then it will play NTSC, dont worry, it really is that simple. There are very few tv's these days (if any?) that are sold and not NTSC compatible.

[mark84]

wow :O Thanks for the excellent and super fast replies!

[charlesr]

Although almost certainly your region free dvd player bought in the UK will output in PAL60
Get a proper rgb scart cable and set the dvd palyer output to "RGB" for best pic quality and to bypass any worries about pal or ntsc
(I'm presuming you have a CRT TV with scart and that you don't have a component enabled TV - however if you have the latter, 3 phono sockets red green blue, like you get on HD Ready TVs then use that..... confused? don't be. it's pretty easy).

[charlesr]

Oh and welcome.

[mark84]

Thanks for the welcome it is a CRT, i'll defo keep in mind what you said about the RGB, though i'm hoping one day to afford to upgrade to a nice HD TV which is why i'm trying to hold out on spending much on a dvd player - waiting for the Bray and hddvd battle to end and prices to drop so I can swap it for an 'all in one' player without feeling bad about wasting cash! Thanks for the advice though, i'll see how i get on.