I recieved this dvd recorder as a gift to replace my old liteon dvd recorder. The panasonic doesn't seem to play pal dvds. Is there a code to allow playing pal dvds? If not, I will have to keep my old dvd play hooked up to play 1/2 of my dvds which is kind of stupid and defeats the purpose of getting this new dvd recorder. It's amazing that the cheap dvd players seem to play both formats, but not this one. The reason for buying this one was because it had a optical output for DTS. I noticed that most of the cheap dvd players/burmers do not have on, just a coaxel output (like my liteon dvd burner). This isn't asking to break a code to play region 2 disc, just to allow PAL discs to be played. (pal with no region code discs)