Question for US traders

[jie3]

Can some US traders please settle my curiosity?

I was wondering what the difference in quality is when you play PAL dvd in your players (multiregion), what's different from NTSC?

Cheers,

J

[loren]

nothing at all

but

the difference is, that NO ONE wants the pal that i deal with

my players run them just famously,

heres a great example, i have the chips almost set, thats in pal

its a dead nonfactor on my list

had it been done in ntsc

i predict i would have moved about 15 sets

rather than the 3 i did


and of cousre im not interested in paying to have it converted, and im too dumb to do it myself

its nothing against you, or other uk traders for me, its that from my experiences, pal is of zero use to me

we could have traded several times, had it not been for the pal issue

[jie3]

Originally Posted by loren

nothing at all

but

the difference is, that NO ONE wants the pal that i deal with

my players run them just famously,

heres a great example, i have the chips almost set, thats in pal

its a dead nonfactor on my list

had it been done in ntsc

i predict i would have moved about 15 sets

rather than the 3 i did


and of cousre im not interested in paying to have it converted, and im too dumb to do it myself

its nothing against you, or other uk traders for me, its that from my experiences, pal is of zero use to me

we could have traded several times, had it not been for the pal issue

Thanks for that.

It's a pitty that so many traders still have an issue with sticking a PAL dvd in their player, especially since about 99% can play them.

I've converted a few of my sets, but the loss in quality just makes it pointless. It seems almost impossible to get a decent PAL-NTSC conversion.

J

[debwalsh]

I think a lot of people don't realize that if there's no region encoding, most players will play PAL with no problem. Now me, I've got multi-standard VCRs as well as DVD players - the only thing I lack is a multi-standard DVD recorder. Had one briefly, but it was so bug-prone, I sent it back.

[T-Greg]

PAL discs play on one of my players (a newer one) and the others won't play them. It's frustrating to not have the ability to play them on all of them. I'm pretty sure you lose a bit of quality when they are converted to region 1.

[loren]

i think the 99% number is far too generous

maybe 50% would be a lot more accurate

for players able to run both ntsc and pal, here in the states