Just found a "nice looking" single-din dvd player to go with my mattjk screen :) ...Found the Farenheit DVD-13...but I'm very new to the stereo world so I just had a few questions:

http://www.i-c-e.com.au/DVD-13.asp

1. What is PAL/NTSC switchable?....what is it for? TV tuner or something :D ?
2. MOSFET 45wx4....decent power with 04 factory speakers.

any explanation of this would be great! Thanks!

1. Yes, the broadcasting format used. That should be just fine for you.
2. As least as decent as the crappy power the stock HU puts out but not much better. Enough to get you buy while you save some more money for an external amp.

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make sure it's not switched to PAL. That's for overseas. NTSC is the US standard. MOSFET, or Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor, is just a type out output device, or "amplifier chip". just about everything except for complete crap uses it. kinda like a used car salesman saying the car comes standard with all 4 wheels...

Thanks so much for your replies...
I'd like to be able to watch local channels...what am I looking at to spend and what do i need to get to run local channels? Again....thanks for all your input for this noob :D

National Television Standards Committee - National Television Standards Committee. The television standard for North America and parts of South America having 525 lines/60 Hz (60 Hz refresh), two fields per frame and 30 frames per second. Technically, NTSC is a color modulation scheme. To fully specify the color video signal it should be referred to as (M) NTSC. NTSC is also commonly (though incorrectly) used to refer to any 525/59.94 video system


PAL - Phase Alternate Line. A television standard in which the phase of the color carrier is alternated from line to line. It takes four full pictures for the color to horizontal phase relationship to return to the reference point. This alternation helps cancel out phase errors. For this reason the hue control is not needed on a PAL TV set. PAL, in many forms, is used in Australia, England, Scandinavia, South Africa, and Western Europe. PAL uses 625-line, 50-field composite color transmission system


All RF, Composite, S-Video, and Component video signals are NTSC in this country. Its not just for TV tuners. Thus PAL/NTSC switchable doesn't mean it has a tuner. It means it can be used in various countries that fallow either the PAL or NTSC video standard. I guess this thing won't work in France though...Damn SECAM

National Television Standards Committee - National Television Standards Committee. The television standard for North America and parts of South America having 525 lines/60 Hz (60 Hz refresh), two fields per frame and 30 frames per second. Technically, NTSC is a color modulation scheme. To fully specify the color video signal it should be referred to as (M) NTSC. NTSC is also commonly (though incorrectly) used to refer to any 525/59.94 video system


PAL - Phase Alternate Line. A television standard in which the phase of the color carrier is alternated from line to line. It takes four full pictures for the color to horizontal phase relationship to return to the reference point. This alternation helps cancel out phase errors. For this reason the hue control is not needed on a PAL TV set. PAL, in many forms, is used in Australia, England, Scandinavia, South Africa, and Western Europe. PAL uses 625-line, 50-field composite color transmission system


All RF, Composite, S-Video, and Component video signals are NTSC in this country. Its not just for TV tuners. Thus PAL/NTSC switchable doesn't mean it has a tuner. It means it can be used in various countries that fallow either the PAL or NTSC video standard. I guess this thing won;t work in France though...Damn SECAM
TECHNO GEEKS UNITE!!!!! see you at ground round...

Hey its my job to know these things.
I did copy and paste it from Extrons website though.

see you their.

National Television Standards Committee - National Television Standards Committee. The television standard for North America and parts of South America having 525 lines/60 Hz (60 Hz refresh), two fields per frame and 30 frames per second. Technically, NTSC is a color modulation scheme. To fully specify the color video signal it should be referred to as (M) NTSC. NTSC is also commonly (though incorrectly) used to refer to any 525/59.94 video system


PAL - Phase Alternate Line. A television standard in which the phase of the color carrier is alternated from line to line. It takes four full pictures for the color to horizontal phase relationship to return to the reference point. This alternation helps cancel out phase errors. For this reason the hue control is not needed on a PAL TV set. PAL, in many forms, is used in Australia, England, Scandinavia, South Africa, and Western Europe. PAL uses 625-line, 50-field composite color transmission system


All RF, Composite, S-Video, and Component video signals are NTSC in this country. Its not just for TV tuners. Thus PAL/NTSC switchable doesn't mean it has a tuner. It means it can be used in various countries that fallow either the PAL or NTSC video standard. I guess this thing won't work in France though...Damn SECAM

WOW!...none-the-less...great info!

......"PAL/NTSC switchable doesn't mean it has a tuner"... :(

Hey its my job to know these things.
I did copy and paste it from Extrons website though.

see you their.
I was talking about me too...."certified techno geek..."

I'm aware.
What certification do you need to have any ways? I thought you built circuit boards and such.