[ale] OT - DVD player NTSC/PAL Region Free

[Jeff Hubbs]

Brian Pitts wrote:
>
> I believe PAL and NTSC videos are encoded with slightly different 
> resolutions, frame rates, etc. A DVD player that expects one format 
> might not decode the other properly. 
That's an understatement; the difference is a deal-breaker.  Scan 
converters are expensive pieces of professional equipment.  It's 25f/s 
vs. 30f/s and 625-line vs. 525-line.  The color encoding is quite different.

I expect you could cobble together an amateur-grade converter in a PC, 
but then there's still the issue of having the mains power avaiable to 
support monitoring and other equipment.