Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:42:49 -0900

on 4/23/02 3:18 PM, Mike Durling at durling@widomaker.com wrote:

DVD media and players are ZONED for specific markets to try to prevent
piracy Asian discs cannot be played in Euro zone players and such...



> The video encoded onto the DVD discs is standard (NTSC-PAL-SECAM) specific.
> If you encoded NTSC (American and Japanese) video and your DVD player tried
> to feed it into a PAL (Most of the rest of the world except France and the
> old Eastern bloc) TV it wouldn't recognize it.
> 
> I've tried to import NTSC video into a DVD authoring program set for PAL and
> it won't take it.
> 
> Mike D
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:04 AM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV
> 
> 
>> DVD are only data disks.  The final TV Format is built into the player.
> You
>> should be able to buy a DVD in the USA and show it in France, on a French
>> ( SECAM) DVD player... take that same DVD and bring it to Britain and see
> it
>> in PAL, ditto that same disk to Japan, etc.
>> 
>> The players are TV Format specific, the disks are universal.  Or are
>> SUPPOSED to be.....
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
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