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Originally posted by Gunter:
My version of the Harry Tracy DVD is an Australian region free release in PAL format, by a company called Force Video. I could imagine that the degradation in sound might be a result of the conversion from the original NTSC format
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I see that Gunter is concerned that his PAL converted DVD might have sufferred quality loss during conversion from NTSC.
I have converted many PAL videos to NTSC and vice-versa using a basic digital converter(a Samar USA CDM-630)
and have never had any noticeable quality loss.
I am not really an expert yet in this but so far in my experience it seems to me likely that once a video has been digitally created it should then play in both formats.In fact I have proof of that statement because not only can I here in the USA csatisfactorily play two PAL DVDs(a UK purchased copy of the superb video describing in his own words how Paul Simon created the "Graceland" album) and a copy of the Simon and Garfunkel/Everly Brothers "Old Friends" 2003 concert DVD (which I actually bought it on-line from a dealer in Holland both for myself and for my sister in Stockport, Cheshire, UK so both copies are marked PAL format and indeed play perfectly(here on a standard US issue Toshiba DVD Player through a JVC NTSC television and in the UK on a UK issue DVD Player through a Sony PAL television.I also believe that "catman" Ron Chidgey in Melbourne very happily plays a US sourced Reno DVD on his Aussie PAL player
and that other prominent Melburnian joveski is interested in mpg vcd files (see below) so maybe he might like to comment here?? I know that video CDs (VCDs) made from downloaded mpeg-1 video files (*.mpg) (or converted from a wmv format video file (*.wmv) then burnt to a CD-R likewise play satisfactorily on both NTSC and PAL "standalone" DVD players,plus as a bonus that the relevant VCD-format file on the resulting video CD is stored thereupon as a file with a dat file extension (*.dat) which can be associated/played with Windows Media Player (and most likely Apple Quicktime for MAC addicts???) so that the VCD may be played by the standard cd-rom drive on your computer.I am planning a tutorial on making video cds etc and will investigate this fact more before writing it.
OK this was a little off topic but if anyone has any pertinent comments I would be delighted to hear them either here or direct by email to me at
fowlesjohn@hotmail.com
Sorry ladies for ther techie talk I was just trying to help here you understand
John Fowles
I Mean No One No Harm
[ May 24, 2005, 09:57: Message edited by: johnfowles ]