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Posted by Bill Farnsworth on 11/11/06 18:09
"Teeafit" <teeafit@teeafit.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1163267497.438333.172870@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> This is an old chestnut, I know, but I'm pretty desperate to get a
> definitive answer from those of you reading this in N.America or
> Japan.
>
> I have a PAL DVD project completed, and ready for replication. As
> potential sales are worldwide, I thought it best to offer both PAL
> and
> NTSC versions. I've had a standards conversion of the core material
> done by a facilities house in London, ready to be re-authored for
> DVD,
> but I'm not very happy with it. Viewing it back on a player/monitor
> combination that can display NTSC, not only do any crawling graphics
> 'judder' something shocking (not totally unexpected, but not as bad
> as
> this) but any horizontal lines in the footage 'shimmer' all the
> time.
> I could (reluctantly) re-make the graphics sequences as part of a
> new
> NTSC project on Avid 7, but don't think that my clients will be able
> to
> stand 2+ hours of 'shimmer'.
>
> I'd complain about the standards conversion, and see if it could be
> improved, but it's all taking time, and I've promised distribution
> before Christmas. A colleague of mine INSISTS that he's
> successfully
> sold PAL DVDs to America, and no-one's ever complained about them
> not
> being viewable.
>
> Certainly only offering PAL worldwide would make my life a lot
> easier,
> and the project more profitable... but LESS profitable if I keep
> having
> to take back discs and refund money to angry customers in Vermont,
> Vancouver and Kyoto (couldn't think of anywhere in Japan beginning
> with
> 'V'!)
>
> Comments welcome, please.
>
> GRAEME ALDOUS, Teeafit Sound & Vision, Yorkshire
>
Sounds like you just answered your own question. There is much less
profit with an angry customer base.
Also, get your colleague to nail down exactly how many PAL DVDs were
sold to customers in America.
Bill F.
www.billfarnsworthvideo.com
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