Conference DVD just arrived here :-)

Colin Holgate coiin at rcn.com
Sat Nov 15 12:11:40 EST 2008


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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