No this is not an advert ....

I think DVDs may well be the way forward when it comes to observing canoeing
skills because you can select scenes very flexibly, quality doesn't degrade
as fast over time - much better than video.

My Bill Mason vids on open boating were the worst, with their tinny monaural
soundtrack and several times when I bought one, what was on the vid never
matched the UK sleeve ... so it read 'whitewater tandem' and when you got
home and put it in it was 'intro to solo fla****er'

Anyway I started looking at Ebay UK and saw some US paddling DVDs advertised
at reasonable prices. However I only have a bog standard DVD player bought
from a leading high street store (called Asteroid or stg like that) and it
is not 'region free' which means it cannot play US DVDs. Ebay has this
facility where you can 'Ask seller a question' but they never got back to me
when I asked, will these play on standard UK players.

Are there any UK canoeists out there who have bought Eric Jackson or
whatever canoeing DVDs on Ebay UK and were able to play them on a standard
UK player?