Well, redbirded....I like your question 'cos actually I have the same little problem myself.
I have Music DVD's from England and I found out that is not a matter of region like before. In the new DVD's is a matter of formats between NTSC-Format (use in USA and know as Hi-Definition) and the PAL-Format(use in most of the world today and know as Analog-TV. I want to make Shure and Clear that is not the old Analog vertion we know,....is The New Analog Hi-Def Vertion....OK !!!).
The New USA DVD-Players play NTSC disc's, unlike UK and Australia where the DVD-Players play and accept bout formating disc's.
To convert NTSC to PAL formats or versa is a destructive hard process with a lost of Audio Quality: since NTSC run 5 frames por second faster that PAL. (29.5fps agains 25fps)
Sorry, but in the mean time we are stack on this-one !!!!
Originally posted by Mrguss: Well, redbirded....I like your question 'cos actually I have the same little problem myself.
I have Music DVD's from England and I found out that is not a matter of region like before. In the new DVD's is a matter of formats between NTSC-Format (use in USA and know as Hi-Definition) and the PAL-Format(use in most of the world today and know as Analog-TV. I want to make Shure and Clear that is not the old Analog vertion we know,....is The New Analog Hi-Def Vertion....OK !!!).
The New USA DVD-Players play NTSC disc's, unlike UK and Australia where the DVD-Players play and accept bout formating disc's.
To convert NTSC to PAL formats or versa is a destructive hard process with a lost of Audio Quality: since NTSC run 5 frames por second faster that PAL. (29.5fps agains 25fps)
Sorry, but in the mean time we are stack on this-one !!!!
HUH??? That has to be one of the most confusing (and often wrong) posts I've read.
Quote:I found out that is not a matter of region like before.
Very often, depending on the player, it most certainly is a matter of region coding. My JVC player handles PAL, but they must be region free.
Quote:To convert NTSC to PAL formats or versa is a destructive hard process with a lost of Audio Quality: since NTSC run 5 frames por second faster that PAL. (29.5fps agains 25fps)
I have quite a few PAL music vids that I've converted to NTSC and they sound great. Any decent converter (ConvertX and AVStoDVD to name two) that use pulldown in the process work well.
I am not an Expert on Video....
Like we all know, we can make a copy of others regions using DVD-shrink or others programs out there and make our copy with a region free and watch them on any DVD-player.
The situation righ here is not the case: Beside that they are from another region, they also are the "New Disc's" wich are not coming on the OLD-PAL-ANALOG FORMAT; Is the NEW-PAL-DIGITAL FORMAT (The New Hi-Def for the 3rd World) that is close to the NTSC FORMAT but with small diff on resolution and framerate.
Anyway, I never say you can't make copies of them. "Yes You Can" but if you use DVD-Shrink or DVDFab you can pay them only on Region Free DVD-Player wich not only play ALL-REGION DVD's, they also Play PAL and NTSC Formats DVD's too or in the first made DVD-Players of the past (80's and 90's) wich still in use today in UK and Australia !!
For those confusing people out there like "MysticE" you can find out more Info by using this web-site on "Guides" section on: "Convert PAL Video to NTSC" (5 pages guide) and you can learn how to Copy this New Kind of DVD's that are coming today, by using:
1.-Nero Recode
2.-TMPGEng Xpress
3.-Avi Synth
4.-Pulldown
Originally posted by Mrguss: Some body knows a rip program that Convert this New PAL-Digital DVD's to NTSC ?
No such thing as 'PAL-Digital DVD's'. PAL describes an analog color encoding system.
Even standard DVD-Video discs are digital and don't contain any analog color encoding, thus no true PAL or NTSC signals at all. When standard DVDs are stamped either PAL or NTSC they are actually referring to frame rates and image resolution, either a 625/25 type signal as PAL and 525/30 as NTSC. PAL/NTSC is irrelevant, it only applies to SD analog formats.
One reason Toshiba lost the High Def wars was because of no region coding. An HD-DVD bought in a 'PAL' country played with no problems in the USA. The same can be said for Blu-Ray as all (well almost). Film is shot at a framerate of 24 frames per second. ALL HD movies from all studios worldwide encode discs in 1080p/24 for both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. But the sh*t heels at Sony (masters of encryption) of course implemented region coding to suck up to the studios. A Blu-Ray from a 'Pal' country doesn't play in the USA due to region issues, not because of any PAL analog color encoding.
We also have a bit of confusion with AVIs. Many often refer to 25fps AVIs as PAL, when if fact they aren't. They have the same FPS that has been associated with analog PAL, but there is more to PAL than the FPS. But it makes life easier to refer to them as PAL.
Well, "MysticE" Like I say before, I am not a Video Profesional.
All I try to say here is that something new is going on, that's why I come out with the name "Pal Digital" that maybe have other name for it when the "Blue Ray DVD's Makers try to encode those new codes into a regular DVD disc's to make a new negeration of regular DVD's disc's hard to copy".
My point is out there for all to know.....thx for the info.
