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Well, I discovered to my astonishment that my Pioneer 47ai, which I was using as an R1 player, will also play almost all of my PAL discs, since most of them are R0, and convert them to NTSC.
So I borrowed a friend's Momitsu to compare the converted 480p NTSC output of the Pioneer routed through the Faroudja line doubler with the straight 1080i PAL output of the Momitsu.
The converted 480p through the Faroudja won handily. Thank goodness, because the friggin' Faroudja listed for $9,000 when I bought it and, even though I bought it used, I still paid plenty for it.
I understand it's possible to have my 47ai modified to play all regions, but rather than shipping it off to have the warranty voided I think I'll just back up my paltry collection of R2 and R4 discs (all of which are DVD-5 except one) to R0 discs.
And that solves that.
Now, anyone know whether there's an easy way to convert the 47a to all-region?
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