Pioneer DV-383S Multi-Volt DVD Player
Beautiful Victory!! Greatest PAL to NTSC conversion for price found here!!
Feeling a little disappointed with the limited range of region 1 I started importing years ago and this by far is superior PAL to NTSC to all those other cheap players. Picture and sound processed through this machine seem much the better in comparison with the Phillips DVP642. I have more than 100 PAL DVDs and from what I see in comparison is a better moving image with sound seeming to line up perfectly with on screen action. There are some nightmare stories out there about some region free players; this is not one of them, it is a dream come true, finally realized.<br /><br />This player has the ability to create its own chapter menus; that is to say while playing the DVD press the home menu button and select `Disc Navigator' then chapter and you will see four screens per page on a player created backdrop. This will please many people that hate the fact that some releases do not provide chapter menus or if do, do not provide an image to match with that but rather a snappy phrase to represent the events.<br /><br />ABOUT MAKING THIS CONVERT PAL TO NTSC:<br /><br />To make this a little more clear, to make this convert PAL discs to NTSC you must do the following on the FRONT PANEL of the device, NOT THE REMOTE:<br /><br />1. Turn the Player off<br /><br />2. hold down the next chapter button &#8594;&#8594;&#9474; then press the Stanby/On button<br /><br />The TV system changes as follows:<br /><br />Auto&#8594;NTSC<br /><br />NTSC&#8594;PAL<br /><br />PAL&#8594;Auto<br /><br />And the cycle begins again.<br /><br />The system is preset to Auto, which tells the player that your TV can read both PAL and NTSC signals. If your TV is like most US TVs the NTSC will come in beautifully but the PAL will be in black and white and distorted. From here, do the process above to change it to NTSC mode. NTSC mode means your DVD player thinks your TV is an NTSC TV and will make the appropriate changes for PAL to play on it. If done one more time you will place the player in PAL mode and in the US your NTSC signal will appear as PAL, in black and white and distorted. If somehow you have slipped into the wrong mode just repeat the process until you get the one you need.in PAL mode and in the US your NTSC signal will appear as PAL, in black and white and distorted. If somehow you have slipped into the wrong mode just repeat the process until you get the one you need.