PAL or NTSC.... does it matter for computerplay?

[renevg]

hi;
can anyone enlighten me please: I've made a DVD for PAL for playing in Europe which I know is right. but does it matter if the DVD is played on a computer only? can the softwareplayers in the computers play at the right speed both for ntsc-DVDs and for pal-DVDs? And when a beamer will be connected...will that make a difference?
thanks in advance.
renevg

[ProfDrMorph]

Shouldn't make a difference whether the DVD is PAL or NTSC when using a computer for playback as long as region codes don't prevent the player from accessing the disc. Also I don't see how connecting a beamer can affect playback of the DVD.

I don't know too much about stand-alone DVD players and TVs ( the only thing I need a TV for anyway is for playing Xbox/Gamecube :D ) but I think that the better models ( meaning if don't use the cheapest ones you can find ) allow playback of both PAL and NTSC content. So even outside Europe this DVD may work on stand-alone players.

[renevg]

Oke, thanks,
but still there is a difference in NTSC with (almost) 30 frames per second and pal with 25 fps. making a DVD for one of them makes it more or less unsuitable for the other, and I was wondering if softwareDVDplayers adjust the speed to the right speed? 30 or 25fps.

renevg

[jeremymacmull]

as a format PAL is normally considered superior as they dont have to fiddle as much with the 24fps source (they just speed it up 1fps ) while ntsc has to have a complicated interlacing procedure

also as far as i know PAL has a better colour separation method and so things look better

For me tho if it is a good dvd i cant really notice the difference

JEREMY

[Sirber]

There is no difference for PC, since it will play both.

[ppera2]

For nice playback it's recommended to set monitor refresh rate to multiple of fps. PAL - 75 or 100 Hz, NTSC 90 or 120...

[Sirber]

Never had refreshrate problem with my movies :confused:

[Mug Funky]

regarding colour separation, this means nothing with DVD - it only matters if you're watching it on TV (through RF cables, like you'd be dumb enough to do that from a DVD player). there may be colour issues in the signal chain between composite input and actual reproduction on the TV, but you'd be pretty hard pressed to notice it. (that said, i don't have an NTSC native TV, rather a multiformat one. i haven't noticed colour problems in NTSC mode.

on computers colour is not an issue at all - but if you're on one of those awful macintoshes, you'll see combing from the iDVD when playing back telecine material (i've never seen a mac that can play a DVD properly... where do you select the bob method from?).

i prefer PAL, but i'm in PAL land so that's no surprise. the flicker on PAL TVs can get annoying, and the pilot tone is *very* slightly lower, and thus more likely to be audible (it drives me frigging MAD! i can't go into electronics shops anymore - i run out screaming when i hear the shriek of several 50hz interlaced teevs. incidentally, i can hear quite well up to ~19.5Khz).

[ProfDrMorph]

Yes, quality MAY be an issue if the stand-alone player is connected improperly ( most people aren't able to see that anyway ). But it still plays and you must be really stupid to have your stand-alone player not connected properly ... ( like my sister is but that may also be my fault because I'm too lazy to buy the right cables and she doesn't know which one to buy :D . I still wonder why only very bad cables came with the player. )