PAL DVD on USA player?
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From: Dave Plowman (News) on 1 Apr 2010 05:55 In article <hp1q54$ti1$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer(a)comcast.net> wrote: > The belief that NTSC is a stupid design, and PAL corrects all the > bone-headed elements of NTSC, is untrue. The original NTSC proposal was > actually PAL (I have the copy of Electronics magazine to prove it), and > NTSC is, overall, a less-compromised design than PAL. Can't remember exactly what I was taught it being so many years ago, but it was something like:- NTSC gives the best studio pictures. PAL records best. SECAM transmits best. Or perhaps any combination of the above. ;-) -- *The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind * Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: William Sommerwerck on 1 Apr 2010 06:54 >> The belief that NTSC is a stupid design, and PAL corrects all >> the bone-headed elements of NTSC, is untrue. The original >> NTSC proposal was actually PAL (I have the copy of Electronics >> magazine to prove it), and NTSC is, overall, a less-compromised >> design than PAL. > Can't remember exactly what I was taught it being so many > years ago, but it was something like... > NTSC gives the best studio pictures. > PAL records best. > SECAM transmits best. > Or perhaps any combination of the above. ;-) PAL was used in Europe to minimize the effects of non-constant group delay in the European distribution system. (PAL is less-sensitive to this, at the expense of chroma desaturation.) The US microwave system didn't have this problem, and NTSC's designers did not see any inexpensive way to take advantage of PAL (for such things as automatic hue correction), so it was dropped. NTSC also has wider color bandwidth, and the color signals match the way the eye sees color. NTSC and PAL are pretty much Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, though -- they're fundamentally the same thing, and it's easy to convert from one to the other. SECAM is a classic example of truly lousy design. It makes recording and transmitting the signal simple, while requiring a more-expensive receiver. Not good.
From: William Sommerwerck on 1 Apr 2010 07:08 >> The belief that NTSC is a stupid design, and PAL corrects >> all the bone-headed elements of NTSC, is untrue. The original >> NTSC proposal was actually PAL (I have the copy of Electronics >> magazine to prove it), and NTSC is, overall, a less-compromised >> design than PAL. > Wot a putrid pile of utterly absurd verbal sophistry. Would you like a detailed explanation? Or are you afraid of the truth? > In * REALITY * the NTSC broadcast signal is massively > compromised in comparison to a PAL signal. In what ways? Be specific. (Pardon me while I go off to take a nap.) You don't know what the hell you're talking about. Put up or shut up. PS: You might also look up the definition of "sophistry".
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 1 Apr 2010 07:24 William Sommerwerck wrote: >SECAM is a classic example of truly lousy design. It makes recording > and transmitting the signal simple, while requiring a more-expensive > receiver. Not good. Considering the 1960's attitude that TV sets (and TV reception) was something to be limited and controlled, it's wonderful. :-) The US never had a tax on TV sets. Before VAT the UK (and most of the rest of the world) had a luxury tax on TV sets, and the UK has a TV Tax. It's 142 quid per year, which is enough to buy a decent TV set. Here it's 650 NIS a year, more than the cost of a 21 inch CRT TV, but due to the high taxes (besides VAT) on TV set's not quite the cost of one. You can buy a 21 inch "full hdtv" computer monitor with VGA and DVI connectors on it for less, but the moment you add a composite, S-video or HDMI jack*, and or a tuner, it doubles in price. Geoff. * Yes I know an HDMI jack is a DVI jack with sound added, but DVI is a computer interface therefore a business/educational device, HDMI is an entertainment device. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Ian Jackson on 1 Apr 2010 11:37 In message <b3e39458-374e-424d-9aee-d6c75cfde799(a)l25g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, stratus46(a)yahoo.com writes >On Mar 31, 5:42�pm, mm <NOPSAMmm2...(a)bigfoot.com> wrote: >> I accidentally bought a PAL DVD (it was shipped from Cleveland!)** >> >> Then, I accidentally came across a web page giving instructions how to >> change the region of some DVD players to whatever one wants. >> >> This doesn't help me, does it? >> >> DVD recorder/players sold in the USA won't play PAL DVDs, will they? >> >> ** �In the ebay ad, he wrote clearly that it was PAL, and he wrote it >> in red!, but it didn't register. > >The DVD drive in our TV computer was perfectly happy switching to play >a PAL disc. > >BEWARE!!!! you can only change the drive like 4 times and then it >stays in the last format. I'm told this is stored in the drive itself >and while I'm sure there is a way to reset this counter, I don't know >what it is. The ATI DVD player looked just fine with PAL. > You can prevent the 'four strikes and you're out' happening by running dvd43 (freeware) in the background. http://www.dvd43.com/ -- Ian
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