Re: Tzadik DVD - what region? Only US?
Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:18:55 -0400, Olivier Borzeix <oborzeix@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 05/04/04 03:43, "EfrÈn del Valle" <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote:
--- Andrew Mortensen <andrewm@mail.selc.com.au> escribiÛ: > I thought that NTSC & Pal were only down to your
actual TV & not your vid/DVD player? is this correct (at all?)
No, it's a video/DVD format, but most of the players nowadays are compatible.
Well, they are in Europe but in North America (or at least in Canada) region free DVD player are still few and expensive to get
As has been noted a few days ago in this thread: DVD regions are a very different issue from NTSC & PAL. NTSC & PAL are two distinct standards for video production about how many lines there are per screen and how fast they scan for a particular TV set. This level of standard is the same for a specific TV set regardless of the source of the programming (broadcast signal, cable, videotape, laser disc, or DVD). DVD regions are only relevant to whether or not a particular DVD player can play a particular DVD - if the programming content is encoded in the PAL format and your TV only plays NTSC, it won't play entirely correctly no matter what DVD region a disc is encoded for. As Efren stated, it is becoming more common for TVs to be compatible with both NTSC and PAL standards. Though this is far more often the case in Europe than North American, it is easier to find multi-standard TV monitors than it is to find region-free DVD players in North America. & this is unlikely to change any time soon. Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com
I realize we're getting further from the specifics of the Zorn doc DVD, but region-switching and standard converting DVD players are more common here in the US than you might think. Players like Apex, Daewoo and Sampo are the most notoriously region free or switchable, but are less than stellar in the durability area. Most all Cyberhome models enable you to choose region and do an acceptable job of converting 4:3 PAL to NTSC. Target department stores offered the Cyberhome 500 player for $70 around Xmas time and I don't think they're much more expensive now. Heck, the place where I get my taxes done was giving out the Cyberhome 300 when you referred five people to them. Information about which players are region free(or can be easily made so) is found at http://www.nerd-out.com/forum/index.php and http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ (under DVD Hacks). Just about to sit down and watch the Zorn DVD; one thing I don't think we've mentioned yet is that it's in a 1:1.66 aspect ratio and enhanced for 16:9 TVs. Impressive that Tzadik would go to the trouble of presenting the film this way when even some of the major studios give 1:1.66 movies 4:3 transfers. -P. Serriano Herb Levy <herb@eskimo.com> wrote: As Efren stated, it is becoming more common for TVs to be compatible with both NTSC and PAL standards. Though this is far more often the case in Europe than North American, it is easier to find multi-standard TV monitors than it is to find region-free DVD players in North America. & this is unlikely to change any time soon.
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