DVD Player PAL to NTSC Conversion

[wulf109]

I'm in the U.S. and playing my first PAL region 2 DVD's. Philips,Norcent,and Koss players do the conversion and preserve the aspect ratio,round objects look round. On a Sampo and Daewoo they do the conversion but don't preserve the A.R.,round objects look slightly oval and the image is compressed downward as if the PAL 576 lines was being compressed to NTSC 480. Everybody looks short and fat. In every case there is a very slight stutter in motion scenes,probably caused by on-the- fly conversion of PAL's 25fps.
Are these observations typical?

[DTSL06]

I have a bunch of Citizen/Norcent 300 and yes they seem to squash the image when PAL is converted to NTSC. I just finish transfering a PAL DVD using one of the Norcents output to a DVD Recorder to make a NTSC DVD and the images do appear a wee bit squashed but not too much. Not a true digital trans but a S-Vid/anolog audio copy. Even playin direct from the Norcent to the TV gives the same results.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Yeah it's hit or miss when it comes to playability,my Toshiba SD4900 will play PAL DVD's but the picture is usually off center.