I don't know how it works in the UK but over here every DvD player I have ever owned converts PAL to NTSC on the fly. If you use DvD Shrink to remove the region coding and burn the file to a blank disc it should work. If that doesn't work this completely free and easy to use program will convert the file created by dvdshrink to a PAL MPEG2 file, it will even let you select the frame rate. It's a great program that runs pretty smoothly, the only complaint I have ever had is that when you get one of the settings wrong the error message is in chinese, but everything else is in perfect English???? Still that is a minor point when this program does so many things well that other programs I have had to pay for don't do at all.

http://www.easy-video-converter.com/