>I am in the US, and I am preparing a conference presentation (with >film clips) to be made in the UK.  I know that I cannot use NTSC >there, so I was wondering if any of you have come upon this

Contact the people at the conference.  Multistandard VCRs are far more common in Europe than the US so it's possible they can play your tapes without much trouble.

LT

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