UK DVD player in US (Score 1)

Is it possible to buy a TV in America that supports PAL? Do American TVs have SCART sockets?

Possibly, but it won't be easy. Here in Europe its quite common to find TVs that will support NTSC/SECAM as well as PAL, but in the US most TVs will support NTSC (525 line, 60Hz) only.

Also, I'm thinking that maybe I can get around all of this by buying an LCD projector and using the super-video output of my DVD player. Does anyone know if this is PAL / NTSC independent?

S-Video isn't PAL/NTSC independent. S-Video is essentially composite, but with the chroma carried on a different wire to the luminance signals rather than composited into a single wire. The only video signal formats that avoid PAL/NTSC are RGB or YUV (component) formats. RGB is commonly used in Europe, YUV is the standard format used in the US. ;-(

Also, you should be aware that technically PAL/NTSC refer to the colour-coding format used, independent of the picture resolution and frame rate. So even if you found a TV in the US that was capable of handling RGB or YUV (thus avoiding the PAL/NTSC colour coding issue) you'd need to be sure it could handle 625 line, 50Hz signals. (Although any TV claiming to handle PAL would almost certainly support 625 line/50Hz).

One possibility is to buy a multi-standard converting VCR (about $4-500 last time I looked) and use the conversion circuitry in that to convert PAL 625/50 to NTSC 525/60. That would result in a significant reduction in picture quality though so isn't particularly desirable.

Another possibility is to take your TV with you and run it from a power converter. Problem with this one is that you won't be able to use it to watch US broadcast/cable TV or output from US VCRs.

BTW SCART is a European standard (once referred to as Euroconnector), virtually unheard of in the US.

Barry