Posted by kim on 08/10/07 12:56

"Gary" <Garyspam@spamasmailorder.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Harding" <harding@herald.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
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>> the dog from that film you saw wrote:
>>> sounds like your phillips player just can't cope with PAL - you'd need
>>> to convert the dvds to NTSC on your pc before burning - and that's going
>>> to result in loss of quality.
>>
>> I thought a DVD player wouldn't give a poo whether a disc is PAL or
>> NTSC - it just squirts out the video signal and hands responsibility for
>> it to the TV upon which one is hoping to watch the result. It sounds like
>> his telly can't handle PAL?
>>
>> Or am I wrong? Not too sure on this one.
>>
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> American market DVD players often do not handle PAL at all.

Even the ones that do are often region-locked or refuse to unsqueeze
anamorphic widescreen on PAL discs.

(kim)

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