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Posted by P Pron on 10/30/05 09:56
Richard wrote:
|| I've just bought a copy of the newly released New Order "Collection"
|| DVD from an Asda store in the UK.
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|| Panning scenes seemed to be a bit jerky, and then I noticed that the
|| disk was labelled as NTSC region 2/3/4/5.
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|| I know that some players cope with the extra frames in NTSC by
|| dropping every 5th frame which would seem to explain the jerkiness,
|| although it is not really objectionable except during pans.
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|| I have never come across this before and feel slightly cheated -
|| lower resolution and jerky playback. If I had wanted an NTSC copy
|| I'd have imported one from the US.
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|| On amazon's UK site the title it is described as PAL so presumably
|| there is a PAL version available.
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|| Is this sufficient grounds to return it for a refund as not suitable
|| for the purpose?
I'd be surprised if the Amazon version turned out actually to be PAL, if the
High St is selling NTSC. They may well have simply assumed that it is PAL,
without checking.
From a legal point of view, it sounds as though the packaging accurately
describes the disc you bought, and the disc is behaving exactly as one could
expect an NTSC disc to behave. But having said that, I'd be astonished if
Asda didn't take it back anyway, if yu were to tell them that your player /
TV doesn't like NTSC...
paul
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