While access to international television and videotapes would provide important support to foreign language curricula, foreign television generally cannot be received, recorded, duplicated, or even played on American equipment due to differences in technical standards, norms, and format. There are five basic solutions to problems of foreign videotape playback, including using tapes from countries with similar standards and norms, purchasing a videotape recorder in a foreign country, using an image translator to re-record the tapes, using a multistandard recorder, and converting the tapes to a U.S. standard. International television materials can be acquired through established distribution networks. The University of Iowa has also formed the Project for International Communication Studies to provide assistance and access to reasonably priced standard transfers and eventually to provide an archive of international videotapes for scholarly purposes. (MSE)