Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html