Bruce Hoult writes:

It's not some sort of local NZ format -- PAL is the standard format
used everywhere in the world except the USA, Canada and Japan. And
all of our DVD players (even the cheapest) and TVs can play your
minority NTSC format as well. I don't know why your DVD player
won't play the world-wide standard. It really can't add much to the
cost, since DVD players selling here for $70 (US$45) do.

World? That's that thing that goes from NY to California isn't it?

It is worse Bruce, it cost's money to disable the PAL and SECAM decoding
in the chipsets...

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