Shoutbox

First, set your TV mode to Auto or NTSC (if you can).

Use the remote to get to the system menu on the DVD player.

Turn off progressive scan, and set PAL output to be converted to NTSC. This is probably in the video and or main categories of the player menu is organised like that.

I've had to do the same thing on my player (except I need to set it to always output PAL)