Even if you already have another "main" DVD player, if you plan to regularly watch PAL DVDs, you're better off saving yourself the trouble and buying a region-free player that will format convert.

A DVD formatted for the NTSC market. Prior to digital television, NTSC and PAL were the two major analog TV formats, each with different frame rates and lines of resolution. When DVDs were introduced ...

The simple way is to convert it from a PAL VCD to a PAL DVD. I doubt there are many DVD players around that can't handle both PAL and NTSC.<BR><BR>Hell, the VCD image dimensions are part of the DVD ...