Gladiators of the Sky DVD

In article .com,
wrote:

I just received "Gladiators of the Sky" from the SSA and was crushed
when my DVD player rejected the disk as incompatible (I live in
Florida).
Apparently, and understandably, its in a 'New Zealand' format: PAL.
In the US and Japan we follow the NTSC format.

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.

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I suggest you take the DVD to a stroe and try it in DVD players in the
store.

You will find most the newer DVD players will play it when you find one that
plays it make a purchase.

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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