OT: DVD standards, regions ( Was Re: Conference DVD just arrived here :-)

[Petrides, M.D. Marian]

Well, the conference was in the US, so they most likely originated as  
NTSC, no?

On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:

>
> On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Kevin Miller wrote:
>
>> As far as I'm aware, all DVD players play NTSC whereas the reverse  
>> is not
>> true. They won't play it if the region code has been set to a  
>> different
>> country, but our DVD does not have this set so everyone should be  
>> fine.
>
> The region free-ness does mean that the discs will be playable  
> legally ok, but whether the TV picture will work is another  
> question. You have to have both a DVD player that can cope with the  
> other standard, and a TV that can work at the other frame rate. It's  
> true that more players and sets in Europe can play NTSC and show 60  
> Hz, than there are players and sets in the US that can play PAL and  
> show 50 Hz, but there will still be a lot of setups that have  
> problems.
>
> In all cases though, computers will be able to play the DVD-Video ok  
> (assuming you have a DVD-ROM drive). The main reason to make them as  
> NTSC would be if the video was recorded as NTSC in the first place.  
> It wouldn't be ideal if they were recorded as PAL and then converted  
> to NTSC, to sometimes be viewed in PAL again Doing that would mean  
> everyone is getting less quality than was in the original videos.
>
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