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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 12:42 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:45 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> > 
> >> I doubt MythTV cares about region codes, and any old PC DVD reader
> >> will read NTSC and PAL.
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe I'm being boneheaded here (stop snickering Aaron!) but I thought
> > the DVD disk was irrelevant to the electrical signal output - NTSC vs.
> > PAL.
> 
> 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.

Right after I hit "SEND" it dawned on me that there is a different frame
rate and thus the DVD encoding will be different. Ditto on the
resolution. 

thus it just goes to show:
a. Jim hits the send key too quickly

b. standards are for weenies

c. American standard is an oxymoron

So if NTSC is an acronym for "Never Twice the Same Color" is PAL an
acronym for Picture Always Lousy ?
> 
> -Brian
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