PAL or NTSC?  How to identify a specific DVD...

Since my MBP plays both PAL and NTSC, I would like to know how to see in which system each DVD was actually recorded. The reason is that I am involved in a film festival and have to classify the entries depending on how they were originally recorded for future playing and conversion. Thank you very very much

Thank you for your reply. I would have checked that prior to asking but the DVDs I am asking about are consumer burned ones and not commercial DVD's. Anyway, after doing additional research, I found that when opening Apple's DVD player software, one can get information about the inserted DVD under File, Get Disk Info.
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