About this Huw DVD

[Michael Blackman]

Whats the TV got to do with it?  I've never ever heard of a PAL only tv??

You simply plug your vid or dvd into any TV and watch.

Off to nibble on some catnip fellas  cheerio :-)


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: About this Huw DVD


> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:26:47AM +0930, Michael Blackman wrote:
> => Seems ALL new video players and dvd's in australia are standard with
both
> => NTSC AND PAL play back and multizone players are available.
> =>
> => you'd think that a country like umerika would have this as well
supposedly
> => being the best of the best of the best and better than the rest.
>
> I think the situation is the same in the USA, but I can't comment from
> personal experience as I don't own a DVD player.  But, of people I
> know who have them, their DVD players seem to support both PAL and
> NTSC (changeable via a menu option), and there are lots of firmware
> hacks available that can disable/set the region of the player (not an
> issue with the Huw DVD as it is mastered to be region-free).
>
> The point I was trying to make is that I think the stated PAL
> requirement is a red herring, as any half-decent DVD playback system
> ought to be able to do the resolution/frame rate conversion on the fly
> to play on any type of TV.  I would hate to think that someone would
> eschew buying the Huw DVD just because they thought, "but my TV is
> NTSC, not PAL, so it won't play..."
>
> I could well be wrong, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
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