ntsc delivery

[John Lundsten]

I think a lot of the reason DVD players intended for Region 2 PAL areas like most of Europe being more likely to play Region 1 disks is that for some odd reason Japan is in region 2, too, which of course is very much NTSC /525.

And region 1, the whole American continent, is a big enough area it may be worth the trouble to make players specifically for that market minus parts needed to cover the world.

[noafilm]

I know it's becoming a bit off topic now but since we are getting into Blu-ray's as well... :)

At this point I still have not had any request for Blu-Ray delivery. I only will buy a BR burner if there is enough demand for it and if I can check the playback on the blu-ray player once I deliver it at the client. (for that 1 request I might get per year i can burn a BR disk from a colleague's workstation)

To be honest, I even have been thinking of (besides delivering the regular dvd's) to deliver all my wedding films as separate HD files on a usb stick combined with a Western Digital WD TV HD Mini Mediaplayer. At least 60% of the wedding clients I have had the past year own a lcd hd tv and stores are not selling crt tv's anymore. At least 90% of the clients I met had a laptop. This means I could assure playback on a laptop (through usb) or on any HD lcd tv through the WD mediaplayer/usb stick in High Definition without any issues.

A laptop is easily taken with them to family and friends to show their wedding in the laptops max resolution and if they want to show it on a big lcd screen in full hd, the wd mediaplayer and a usb stick also almost fits in your pocket. So no hassle with blu-ray disks that might not play and complaints you might get in the future.

[Bluetongue]

Actually I've had no problem with videos from tourist shops, I purchased a Documentary Blu-Ray from Buchart Gardens in Canada & a mate of mine bought a rock climbing Blu-Ray for me from the U.S, no playback problem whatsoever...


Regards Phil C.

Bluray players and DVD players are like chalk and cheese, Bluray players do not care if a "Commercial" disk is PAL or NTSC, BUT DVD players are completely different, all because of Movie moguls being afraid of piracy.
Steps have been taken with Bluray that will probably have a final influence on if it survives or fails but cause problems with disks that we are able to make.
Customers with early Bluray players may NOT be able to play a disk you make, later ones seem to be OK, BUT
People with early HD TV's without HDMI may be able to play your disk in HD but definitely will not be able to play a commercial disk in HD which could cause Bluray's demise, only the future will hold the answer
Regards Barry

[rapcon]

yes, each DVD display stand should have a warning sign that these DVD will only play in region 1 countries

in fact, I would like to find out where to make an official complaint about that

Actually I've had no problem with videos from tourist shops, I purchased a Documentary Blu-Ray from Buchart Gardens in Canada & a mate of mine bought a rock climbing Blu-Ray for me from the U.S, no playback problem whatsoever...

I do agree, why can't North America HD TVs & players be configured to play 1080 50p & 50i, it's ludicrous, we can play everything here in Australia, 1080, 720 24p, 25p, 50i, 29.97i, plus all SD formats, the lot, why can't you in U.S & Canada the same? This has nothing to do with region coding what I'm stating...

Regards Phil C.

[Chris Barnard]

I used to do a lot of conversions in both directions.

I'd just export an es mpeg stream, then convert the m2v in procoder, and start a project in ulead with the desired final format parameters. Never had any problems.

I found that a good way to get around the slight fuzziness on edges that one sees after a conversion was to add a small touch of sharpness to the video prior to rendering.

[tingsern]

basically, region coding should be forbidden for that reason and I want to officially request that

My Philips DVD player all bypass region codings :-).

[newscctv]

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[antonsvideo]

basically, region coding should be forbidden for that reason and I want to officially request that

[antonsvideo]

LOL, so i guess they should ask every person that buys one if they are from Australia? hehehe

yes, each DVD display stand should have a warning sign that these DVD will only play in region 1 countries

in fact, I would like to find out where to make an official complaint about that

[pjsssss]

on the same subject, USA tourism related shops should be fined for selling region 1 DVD to australian tourists, they then come home and throw the DVD in the rubbish bin, too far to return for a refund

LOL, so i guess they should ask every person that buys one if they are from Australia? hehehe

[antonsvideo]

on the same subject, USA tourism related shops should be fined for selling region 1 DVD to australian tourists, they then come home and throw the DVD in the rubbish bin, too far to return for a refund

[dpalomaki]

There are not that many players here [in USA] that play PAL

For sure. It was a way for content owners (like Sony) to discourage import of foreign source PAL DVDs, it gave them an additional control on distribution and tighter lock on the sales stream. Turns out low cost (generic) DVD payers are often a bit more likely to successfully play PAL than the higher end brand names (e.g., Sony). For players marketed in both the land of NTSC and PAL, probably slightly lower cost to make one machine that can play both formats and just trust to region coding.

[noafilm]

Thx a lot all for the tips, very much appreciated.

[dpalomaki]

You can also use uncompressed LPCM files (e.g., .WAV) on a USA DVD.

Supported formats were likely decisions taken by the drivers of early DVD format in the USA, mainly the content owners I suspect; so thank Hollywood. Probably because their 100 gram brains think of MP3 as an illegal file sharing format.

[tingsern]

Why products for US markets are SO RESTRICTIVE? Audio - must be Dolby AC3 (cannot use MPEG Audio), don't have PAL and NTSC, etc, etc.