A player which can reproduce both PAL & NTSC discs will output either PAL or NTSC video, depending on which kind of disc is in it. There is no player with circuitry to convert one to the other, to output NTSC video from a PAL disc, or PAL from an NTSC disc, which is what you seem to be asking. The closest thing would be a player which outputs NTSC 4.43 when an NTSC disc is played, which is not what you want at all.

In other words, you will need a TV or monitor which can accept a PAL input, or some kind of standards conversion hardware.

I was afraid of this. I kinda expected that it would be the case, but I still wish it were otherwise. Atari's last game console was the Jaguar. The game cartridges, regardless of region, will detect the standard the console uses. So a PAL release will play perfectly in an NTSC console. If Atari could figure out how how to do it, Pioneer should have been able too.

I was afraid of this. I kinda expected that it would be the case, but I still wish it were otherwise. Atari's last game console was the Jaguar. The game cartridges, regardless of region, will detect the standard the console uses. So a PAL release will play perfectly in an NTSC console. If Atari could figure out how how to do it, Pioneer should have been able too.

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DVD players & video-game consoles, on the other hand, take digital data & use it to synthesize an analog video waveform. Naturally, it's not hard to modify the circuitry which does this to synthesize different kinds of analog waveforms from the same data.

The two processes are not comparable in any way.

There is a simple solution. All you need is a converter (as Publius suggests) between the monitor/tv to the player. You can input/output any signals you desire. I've seen them do Seacam/PAL/NTSC no problem.

Thanks for the informative response, although I'm still hoping that someone will have a workable solution. And then there is the whole power supply and refresh issue. NTSC machines released in Japan and the USA use 110 volts/60 hz. PAL machines use 220 volts/50 hz.

Something like this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Composite-Y-C-V ... 35ac6647f7

Many if not most multistandard LD players have power supplies which will run fine on American current. Sometimes this is a documented feature, & sometimes there's a back-panel switch, but the fact is that modern switching power supplies are often surprisingly indifferent to the specifics of the input current.

The "simple solution" to viewing would occur if you have a TV which will correctly display a PAL video signal, in addition to NTSC. This may be an undocumented feature on US models, due to the use of ICs which work for both systems. My HDTV, for reasons unknown, refuses to display a 50 Hz video signal from the component input, but accepts it via composite. (As my only 50 Hz video source is a component test pattern generator, I have no idea whether it correctly decodes PAL colour.)

Looking at it I'm not sure that it takes a PAL signal and outputs it as an NTSC signal, which is what I need. I don't have a high-def monitor yet, just my old CRTs.

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