[CharlotteSometimes]

From what I've read online, you'd need either a dvd player or tv that had an NTSC to PAL converter built in, or a conversion box connected between the two. Otherwise, you'd get a poor quality and very likely black & white picture on your screen, as well as probable image distortion and frame rate inaccuracies. A few sites claim that NTSC discs will play fine (providing the dvd player will accept the region in question) on a PAL system, and that tv sets built in the last 8 to 10 years will have no problems. I don't trust that theory very much at all, though.

Yeah, watching on the pc would solve the problem. But (in my case) why watch a film on a 17'' screen with stereo sound when you've got a 28'' widescreen with Dolby 5:1 on the other side of the room? You could also use a fly-lead from your pc that converted the VGA to PAL, but you'd lose quality and would still have to use a software player, rather than the real thing.