Neil Rudish
Auditioning
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- Apr 30, 2002
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I'm somewhat confused: I saw a DVD set listed for sale in New Zealand, where the seller claims the title is for all regions, but is in the PAL format. What's confusing?
1. Wouldn't Region 1, by nature of its location, be considered NTSC?
2. Isn't the data on a DVD stored as compressed MPEG data, which is independent of format? (My computer monitor certainly isn't NTSC and plays DVDs just fine.) My thought was that the DVD player itself decoded the MPEG then formatted it for NTSC or PAL within the player, depending on what type of player you owned (NTSC or PAL).
3. If this is an all-regions DVD, will it play in the U.S. on home theater and/or computer DVD players?
Hope my questions make sense!
TIA,
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1. Wouldn't Region 1, by nature of its location, be considered NTSC?
2. Isn't the data on a DVD stored as compressed MPEG data, which is independent of format? (My computer monitor certainly isn't NTSC and plays DVDs just fine.) My thought was that the DVD player itself decoded the MPEG then formatted it for NTSC or PAL within the player, depending on what type of player you owned (NTSC or PAL).
3. If this is an all-regions DVD, will it play in the U.S. on home theater and/or computer DVD players?
Hope my questions make sense!
TIA,
-= N =-