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Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/11/06 21:56
"Teeafit" wrote ...
> 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'd complain about the standards conversion, and see if it could be
> improved,
Likely a wide range of quality vs. cost in standards
conversion. The kind done "on the fly" in cheap Chinese
DVD players is most likely inferior to the kind that costs
$100s per hour to have done at a top broadcast-quality
vendor.
> 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.
That seems preposterous. Maybe his customers were only
ex-pat Brits slumming it in the colonies with multi-standard
equipment the brought with them from the UK?
Unlike equipment available in Europe for many years, DVD
players (and screens) in North America are overwhelmingly
NTSC-only. An exception (and accidential at that) appears
to be the cheap Chinese players that will play anything. But
I suspect these have a very tiny market-share.
Trying to sell PAL DVDs into North America seems like a
non-starter IMHO. Unless you have a very special/unusual
customer demographic.
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