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Posted by Netmask on 11/13/06 04:49
"Teeafit" <teeafit@teeafit.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1163325110.407740.223550@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> >
>> Either your "colleague" is an ass or the people that bought the
>> non-viewable DVDs are asses. Take your pick.
>
> Well, all I can say is that he claims to have shown his PAL DVDs on
> more than one set of friends' kit in the USA and had no problems with
> picture quality..... but as it would have been endless footage of
> 'chuff-chuff trains' climbing interminable gradients, I may not need to
> say more!
>
> The point about in-machine standards conversion being probably inferior
> to what I already have is a very valid one. Incidentally, I SHOULD
> have said that this is not a Region Code thing - the DVDs will be 'All
> Region'. It is purely a TV standards issue. It looks like, without
> paying even MORE than I did for the standards conversion in London
> (with each field lovingly hand-painted by elves) I'm going to be stuck
> with an inferior product for the NTSC countries.
>
> I guess I'll have to go ahead with the PAL replication, and warn my
> NTSC customers that they'll either have to risk it, or wait a little
> longer for a better-quality product. Then I can buy a little time to
> re-make the project from scratch as an NTSC DVD.
>
> Thanks for your inputs.
>
> GRAEME ALDOUS, Teeafit Sound & Vision, Yorkshire
>
The problem is both technical and population base - here in Australia
virtually every TV, DVD player is multi-format that is it will handle PAL,
the local standard and NTSC.Technically it's a whole lot easier for a PAL
standard countries to accommodate NTSC than visa versa. The US market is
very much a closed local market with a population base to support it so
there is no good economic reason to market PAL/NTSC TV's or DVD players as a
matter of course even though the rest of the World is mostly PAL. So dual
inventories are a necessary evil.
I import DVD's from all over, UK, France, USA, Thailand etc without any
thought to their standard as I know I will be able to play it and it will
look good on my panel - but it just isn't so easy for the land of NTSC
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