vern(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 2nd November 2000, 10:38
Can someone please elaborate on this ?
The manual of the DVD player states that it plays NTSC & Pal disks but does this mean its multi region ie. R1 and R2 ?
RE: Difference between NTSC and Pal ?
John Savage(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 2nd November 2000, 11:02
NTSC and Pal are purely two different methods of placing a picture on a tv screen. I doubt your player is multi region out of the box (or if it is that it would say it in the manual) The reason that all Region 2 players can handle NTSC and Pal standards is because Japan and Europe are the same region and Japan runs on NTSC.
A region 1 player tends to be NTSC only. This is why all it takes is a simple mod to allow most UK players to play Region one discs as all you have to do is defeat the region coding whereas a Yank who wants to play a UK/Euro (or Aussie) Pal disc would need to buy a player that could work with Pal (not to mention that most US tvs will only handle NTSC as well)
Sometimes not being in the States is actually an advantage - we can (with a little mod) access every dvd disc in the world, they are stuck with NTSC ones.
