Need DVD Hacks to Play Aussie DVD in US PLEASE!!
POSTED BY: BelowZero
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 02:44
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Thanks for the heads-up about the DVD players that do PAL-to-NTSC conversion. Good myth! Er, I mean, nice feature.
Can you see any visible effects when you're watching a PAL disc on an NTSC set? The two formats aren't that easily interchanged. PAL has more vertical lines, for example -- do they just clip these off, or somehow reencode the whole picture into fewer lines? What about the 50/60 fields/sec issue, any idea how that's handled? Any strange motion artifacts or anything? Can you do frame-by-frame freeze frame on a PAL disc?
Just curious as to whether it's worth getting an extra player for my one-and-only PAL DVD (Aussie Serenity, of course).
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Thanks for the heads-up about the DVD players that do PAL-to-NTSC conversion. Good myth! Er, I mean, nice feature.
Can you see any visible effects when you're watching a PAL disc on an NTSC set? The two formats aren't that easily interchanged. PAL has more vertical lines, for example -- do they just clip these off, or somehow reencode the whole picture into fewer lines? What about the 50/60 fields/sec issue, any idea how that's handled? Any strange motion artifacts or anything? Can you do frame-by-frame freeze frame on a PAL disc?
Just curious as to whether it's worth getting an extra player for my one-and-only PAL DVD (Aussie Serenity, of course).
Aaaaaahhh!!!! Technical jargon! I don't know the specifics; I just know that I hacked my player, popped the DVD in, hoped for the best, and it worked. I didn't notice anything too terribly different and neither did my roommate. Maybe just hack the player and see if yours works. I don't think the PAL-NTSC is advertised because I didn't see anything about it in the user's manual.
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I really can't see any visible effects when playing a PAL disc, but there is always a little line at the VERY top left of the screen, which is normal when your player converts PAL to NTSC I'm told. I never noticed it until someone pointed it out once, and it is there, but once again, not really noticable, and my $300 Momitsu V880 does the same thing, I checked.
Bascially, besides that thin line, which you can't see hardly at all, you'd never know you were watching a PAL disc at all!
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*insert maniacal chuckles here*
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Easter dinner, anyone? LOL
Thanks so much for all the info! I will probably try hacking mine first then buy the one at WalMart that will play anything. That should come in handy should I land those con panel videos I am also looking for. :)
You guys are awesome!
I swear, if anyone needs to know something there is a Browncoat out there with the info!
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