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Burning US homemovies on DVDs to view in Germany
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8. February 2004 @ 12:04 |
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Europe doesnt have a HDTV market , whereas USA & Japan do !; (
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8. February 2004 @ 15:36 |
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In that case I don't feel so bad. Maybe I'll just go to a friend's house and watch his 65" HDTV so I can forget the whole thing. :D
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8. February 2004 @ 15:53 |
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One thing is tho , when you watch back up's on large HDTV / Plasma etc ... slight pixelation seems to be a tad more visible ;-)
*which is why a lot of HDTV owners like to do 1:1 DVD copies , even if that means splitting across two discs.
Soon to be sorted though with the introduction of dual layered writer(s) :D
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 8. February 2004 @ 15:59
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8. February 2004 @ 16:19 |
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I usually only do 1:1 copies anyway. Occasionally I'll use CCE to transcode if it's no more than 5%-10% over, but I don't see any point in reducing the quality to put it on another DVD. I have a lot of 2 disc movies, but I'd rather have twice the discs than half the quality. Yeah I know that's an exaggeration, but obviously you know what I'm talking about.
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malum
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8. February 2004 @ 23:11 |
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Europe doesnt have a HDTV market , whereas USA & Japan do !; (
The reason we don't is that compared to USA TVs ours are already HDTV so the extra little on top was considered not worth the bother.
Having not viewed it I can't say if that's correct or not.
Having viewed plasma I can say that the quality of plasma is not as good as a decent PAL CRT TV by a long way.
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9. February 2004 @ 03:30 |
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LOL
Yeah , I think my PAL is great !: )
[pun intended].
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vuvan
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10. February 2004 @ 14:07 |
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Hi,
I've sent a friend in France some DVDs which were backed up from the original movies produced in the U.S. DVD-Decrypter, DVD-Shrink and Nero 5.5 / B's Recorder Gold 5 (burning software by MedioStream.com)-w/Region code free setting were used. When he played these DVDs on his DVD-player + PS2 station player he got black and white display. This suggests to me that this may be NTSC-PAL/SECAM display problem. I wonder whether France is the only country in Europe has not had NTSC-PAL/SECAM multi-system implemented for DVD players/TVs?.
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vuvan
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10. February 2004 @ 17:27 |
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How do you know it's not his/hers TV set that cannot playback NTSC format ?
I am in England & nearly all TV sets (especially if bought in the last 7yrs) & stand alone DVD players will play either PAL (standard) or NTSC.
Didn't know France was any different , and I've not heard that sort of problem for anyone else in say...Spain , Italy etc
:S
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vuvan
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11. February 2004 @ 08:20 |
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Hi,
ClaudiaD: If your DVD is rendered to PAL output as adviced by Malum then your parents should be able to watch them without any problem. On the question of PAL to NTSC conversion some info on the pages should help:
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.19
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/guides#4;41
Herbsman: The DVDs I produced in North America (NTSC) cannot be displayed properly in France may be due to his TV (?). That means extra steps should be investigated when sending North America DVDs (NTSC) to Europe.
To make things more interesting I'd like to inform you a slightly different case where a PAL-DVD was bought in France and I couldnot display the signal properly when using North American equipments; Pioneer DVD players (DVD-434 and V-630) output to Epson 5250 (or Sony PX-20) LCD projector(s) which is capable of handling PAL signal. The problem is solved when this PAL DVD is played thru a "multi-system" player from Apex, Daytek or Sungale. The ouput is fed directly to regular (NTSC) TV. These players can be bought cheaply in North America comparing to buying much more expensive PAL ready TV or projectors.
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vuvan
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ClaudiaD
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13. February 2004 @ 05:03 |
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Here we go again. I sure am glad someone knows what's goint on.
I am using a backpack dvd+- rw burner. Iwent on micro solutions' website, mydvd website but I cannot find any place to tell me how to check what region the burner is set to or how to set it region free.
Does anyone know? (already went into backpackfinder, no region info there)
Claudia
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malum
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13. February 2004 @ 05:08 |
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It will be set to whatever region you bought it in.
But that's for reading only. For burning it won't have a region set (am I talking to myself here?)
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ClaudiaD
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13. February 2004 @ 05:15 |
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Thank you again. No, you are not talking to yourself, just to an absolute moran when it comes to this stuff. I confused the two. Thank you. I burnt different brands of DVDs and just wanted to double check before I send them out. But if the burning does not code them then it'll be fine, I guess. Didn't know there is a difference between reading and writing codes. Sorry.
Claudia
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