>CDs are just like ours, so does that mean that European DVDs will
>play on our machines?
Well, European tapes are physically the same as US as well, that's not the
problem. With DVDs there are two: industry-imposed region coding and the
PAL video standard. You can get around the region code (assuming the disc
is coded, some are and some aren't) as a hidden menu item on some players
or you can have other players altered (which voids the warranty). As for
PAL, again a few players allow you to change this easily though even in
that case you supposedly get better results with an outboard standards
converter.