Seems to be solvable.
I am in America and really want to buy this music DVD from a British band but not sure if it will play on my DVD player. Its a Philips hts3400 surround sound unit. It says it plays PAL and NTCS format but I thought that just refers to the picture quality and not the region (its a region 2 disc). I have no idea if the player is multi region and did not see it anywhere in the manual (of course, I don't understand most of the technical stuff they say anyways). Any help would be much apreciated.

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