Re:How about a voltage converter (Score 1)

i have a DVD that I bought in Barcelona that is definitely encoded in PAL -- and even though it is a "Region 0" DVD, it won't play on my DVD player (a Sony DVP-S500, which was one step down from Sony's top-of-the-line when I bought it). i may have been generalizing too much when I said that the data on the disc was in PAL...it's possible that the data (for a movie, for instance) could be in a neutral format, and the output ciruitry on the DVD player coverts the signal to PAL-*, NTSC, whatever. the disk I have may have failed to play for other reasons...I wish I knew why my DVD player refuses to even recognize it.