Making a PAL DVD

[Eric Pautsch]

I didn’t say all….but if this guy sent an NTSC disc to his friend, I’d bet you a steak dinner it would play. I was in London last year – must have seen 50 or so NTSC titles on a store shelf.

[Todd Dalton]

NTSC titles on sale in the UK, eh?

Well, it may be that here in London stores are catering to American tourists, but I muust say that I’ve yet to see NTSC titles on sale…. Out of interest, where were they?

These few London stores aside, in the UK in general the chances are that anything other than a PAL dvd will not run in a standard player as most people won’t be thinking of playing States’ discs in anything but their computer. Honest, the general public ain’t interested in being able to play region 1’s. So how about making the disc regionless (i.e. flagging all the region codes on the encode) or region 2 – I don’t think that there’d be an authoring issue with a region 2 disc and non-25fps frame-rate, would there..? Anyone? That way they’ll be able to play the disc in a computer’s player but not waste a ‘change region’ count on the hardware. Even in my old hometown of Liverpool they have computers! 🙂