How do I find out if my DVD player is multi-region and my TV is NTSC (without asking dh)?

[SorenLorensen]

It's dh's birthday soon and I was thinking about getting him the second series of Battlestar Galactica (the one that's showing now on Sky One) on DVD. Only it's not out here yet - but you can buy it on Amazon direct from the States, but it "requires a North American or multi-region DVD player and NTSC compatible TV". I don't know if ours are.

Also it says I may have to pay import duty - how likely is that and how much would it be (the DVDs are £20)?

We have crap tvs, and our main one is the Tv which i bought to replace the b/w portable we had so it is around 16 years old but is ok with dvds from Hong Kong (English subtitles!) on our dvd player which was 20.00 and is multi region no problem.

Dvd player was a bargain from Amazon.