I wrote: (I remember the dismay of one instructor over her washed-out copy-again, VHS).
Just to clarify, at that time (mid-90s)the media library had a policy of converting a tape in its collection but (in principle) destroying the original so that a purchased tape was replaced by the converted tape. I briefly took over the Media Library around 1999 and found that there was a big pile of PAL or SECAM originals that had been converted but not tossed. I pulled the NTSC copies and replaced them with the originals, adding information about how to get a multi-standard player from classroom support. As I said, multi-standard DVD players are very common now and include ALL computer DVD drives (at least I think so). Judy Shoaf
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