hola k77,

US formats are in NTSC. However, if their puter is pretty new with XP, it CAN play PAL videos on the puter by changing a setting. But NOT on the DVD players.

However, just remembered...they MIGHT have problems with the region code itself. Maybe...and they can change that in their desktop. But they can only change it three times. To the different regions.

But, if this is a MOVIE DVD, that's different story.

most movie DVD's have region codes. Australia has region code 4 while US has region code 1

and there IS a way to convert PAL to NTSC files, but if they are going to watch it on their puter, I don't think there will be a problem.

here are some freebies that you might want to try if you'd rather convert it to NTSC format

http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

or get the other person to download it and convert it.

there a few others but I'll have to find some time to look for them. Gotta get back to work here. LOL