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Question for a European…
I have to send some DVDs to Europe. The company I work for is doing a few small shows in England, France, and Germany. Will I be okay if I author NTSC DVDs? I know that Europe is a PAL region, but I have also heard that most equipment these days in Europe is compatible with NTSC. Is this true, or do I need to run everything through a standards converter and kick out some PAL DVDs?
Brian
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6 Replies
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Yes You’re rigth.. almost all DVD players in EU are both NTSC/PAL.
In most of them you can also select to output the signal as is or force to PAL, where the DVD player is doing a kind of NTSC to PAL on-the-fly conversion.
Most of the good TV sets are also multisystem. So in this case it’s better to leave the DVD player as is. So your disc will play as NTSC and the TV/display will swicth to NTSC and the quality will be much better as being converted to PAL by the DVD player.
I have did over 100 DVD titles only on NTSC commercially distributed worldwide.
Personally at home I have this setup Marantz DVD player and a Toshiba Retroprojector.. I can watch indistintly the USA and EU DVDs, both with good quality.
Hope this helps.
Ah! I’m in the EU… at the Independent Republic of PAL system.
Jordi J. Recort
Composer & Editor
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That helps a bunch. Thanks!
Brian
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While we have done tites like that for world-wide distribution, I need to pour some water in the wine.
Even if ALL players in Europe can handle DVDs in NTSC, not all TVs will accept the signal,in particular older ones. Some may flicker, some may go to black and white and very rare cases not show any picture.
So, I’d add a little bit of explanation on the sleeve.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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yes, this is true,, and this is why I said “good TV sets”. Anyway, nowadays most of the Flat LCD/Plasmas are multisystem capable.
Also the DVD player have options.. Dirty cheap “no-brand” models like the 40 EUR Mediamarkt model probably will have no options.. but good ones will have options that will let you play even in the case of a TV set that’s not NTSC capable.
Jordi J. Recort
Composer & Editor
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Hi Brian I have done a little test for you.
I have test a NTSC DVD bougth by me on the US some years ago.. on the cheap 40 EUR no-brand DVD on a Toshiba Rezga LCD TV and no problem at all…
Jordi J. Recort
Composer & Editor
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One more thing..
and remember to include region 2 in the regional coding!
US DVD that don
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