There I go shooting off before I had the brain totally engaged. You all are
correct. The content is in fact encoded per the video standard. I should
know this as I do some playing around with video production on DVD.
Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Lew Palmer
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From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Max Heim
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:24 PM
To: MG List
Subject: Re: British DVDs
Yes, they are. But that's like saying they're Mac or PC. The disc is the
same, it's the content that's different. The PAL content won't play on your
US TV, even if your DVD player is PAL-compatible, see?
on 5/18/04 7:27 PM, Rocky Frisco at rock@rocky-frisco.com wrote:
> Lew Palmer wrote:
>
>> Like someone else mentioned, the PAL compatibility only comes into effect
>> when you hook it up to the TV. It's the broadcast signal that determines
to
>> necessary output format. The DVD disc itself is format neutral. So unless
>> you also have a PAL compatible TV, it does you no good.
>
> Now, I'm confused. I was under the impression that the discs are either
> NTSC or PAL or whatever. They sure label them that way.
>
> -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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