Thanks for the replies, I will try and get rid of it and find a PAL player.

Seb



"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
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JANA wrote:
In more simple terms, there are a number of boards and parts to
change, and
then a recalibration is required, to make many of these types of units
work
on a different broadcast system.

What confused or made the original poster hopeful was that there is a
multisystem version sold in Europe. The market for things like this
most likey 80%-90% 100-130 volt ac/60 HZ, NTSC. This covers Japan and
North America (and most of South America too) and with a different power
supply Korea.

That makes it worthwhile to have two versions, an NTSC only version and a
multisystem version sold in the rest of the world. Since at least five of
the NTSC versions are sold to one of the multisystem units, it makes
no sense to include the extra parts, microprocessor programing etc.

The multisystem units are sold in countries that have high import
duties, luxury taxesm VAT, and in some places import quotas so people
are used to paying high prices for them. In the U.S. a one dollar
difference in price could lose a sale.

BTW, Sony U.S. a much bigger company than Sony Japan, will NOT sell a
multisytem unit of any kind.

Geoff.

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