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Posted by John Howells on 04/03/06 14:22
"Mal" <mincer2000@hotmail.com> wrote
> so ... being that R2 covers PAL, SECAM and NTSC standards there's no such
> thing as an NTSC, PAL or SECAM DVD ... only the region coding ... so
there's
> no conversion of the video from PAL > NTSC > SECAM etc. ... the only
> conversion is from the digital data on the disc to a video signal. If your
> player is multi-region then it's going to display a R2 disc as good as
it'll
> show a R1 disc.
No. There is more than just the region coding. An R2 disk for Japan is
different from an R2 disk for Europe.
There are two basic video encoding standards, 720x576 and 720x480 (Pixels
Horizontal x Pixels Vertical). So-called PAL disks use the former and NTSC
disks use the latter. See http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4
The end result is that there *IS* video standards conversion when a PAL disk
is played back on an NTSC only TV.
John Howells
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