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Posted by Niall Leonard on 11/01/05 15:24
On 1 Nov 2005 05:45:03 -0800, mmaker@my-deja.com wrote:
>Major ChrisB wrote:
>> Anyone any idea? Surely dvd players in the states will be multi-region like
>> most players here are.
>
>Players may be, but TVs generally aren't: whereas almost any British TV
>can play NTSC video. Other than frame rates, the big problem is that
>NTSC is 480 lines whereas PAL is 576 lines, so it's easy to play NTSC
>on PAL, but not so easy to play PAL on NTSC.
>
>Some people have sent PAL DVDs to America and Canada and found they
>worked, others haven't been so lucky.
>
> Mark
Since the Yanks have the earliest releases of Hollywood features and
complete TV series on DVD as opposed to half-sets (LOST being the
latest example) they have little incentive to go for multi-region.
Likewise the US TV market is so huge many manufacturers do not bother
with multi-standard TVs like we have, but stick to NTSC vanilla.
Some US residents might buy TVs from abroad and they would probably be
able to show multiple format. Some might even have DVD players
sourced from abroad that are potentially multiregion, but since the
demand for hacks isn't there, don't know what their machine is capable
of or how to de-region it.
nl
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