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if it's a region issue, you should get a "wrong region" message (or something similar) on your television (and perhaps on the front panel of the player, too). Although several players will convert PAL to NTSC on the fly, there are some name brands (Panasonic and Sony are perhaps the most...

Ah! Part of the reason I even bothered to make the distinction is that, quite often it seems, several Australian released are encoded region-free, particularly if it's a title they expect to do a fair amount of export-related sales on (Darkroom, for instance).

PAL/NTSC and DVD regions aren't the same thing, though. If the boxset is region-free (as foreign DVD releases sometimes are), your only concern would be whether your player is capable of converting the PAL signal to NTSC (which many DVD players--though not all--can do, often 'behind the scenes')...

thanks for the info. I was going by DeRosa's post saying approx. 49 minutes each, which would have been about right for non-sped-up shows of that vintage.

Do you know there's speed-up for a fact (i.e. you've seen them)? There will only be speed-up if they were working from film prints. I figured it was quite possible that they were given PAL masters that were standards-converted from NTSC transfers. If that is the case, then there would be no...