Various Regions PAL DVD's

[dblan9]

I am building a PAL DVD for various regions. They are Western Europe, Asia Pacific including China and New Zealand, Latiin America. Considering these areas are predominantly PAL can i author a PAL DVD with All regions checked in DVD Studio Pro have some reliability that these will be able to play in these areas? Thank you in advance.

[hech54]

"Predominantly PAL" isn't going to cut it. If that DVD goes to an NTSC country....and that country is as bad with PAL format as the US is....it's gonna cause problems. An "all region" or "region free" PAL disc will help in different PAL countries....but it won't do squat in an NTSC country.

[jman98]

Well, there are NEVER 100% guarantees, but your DVD will PROBABLY work in MOST PAL countries. Please note that some countries (I think they may all be in South America) use some weird PAL variant that uses PAL resolutions but NTSC color. If I remember, this includes Brazil and Argentina. Their DVDs have to be NTSC to work correctly with their TVs.

[dblan9]

Thanks jman98 that was what I was looking for. I was planning on sending out an NTSC and a PAL copy for each area. If I understand what your saying, the NTSC would actually work better in South America than a PAL DVD. Is this correct?

[jman98]

There is some detailed info on PAL here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay use PAL variants. All other Latin American countries (except maybe French Guiana - not sure) use NTSC. Basically NTSC DVDs are best for Brazil. PAL DVDs should work OK in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay unless the consumer has an old TV. They'll still be able to play it, but on old TVs it may show up as black and white.

NTSC has been said to work in 95% of the world. Almost all TVs and DVD players sold in PAL countries are capable of playing NTSC video. Making NTSC work on PAL equipment is fairly trivial. The reverse is not true.

[edDV]

I agree, stick to NTSC DVD for Brazil. PAL-M only relates to the broadcast method (525/60 with PAL color). The YCbCr DVD is identical with NTSC.

Argentina and others with PAL-N have 625/50 with PAL RF subcarrier at 3.58MHz. Their DVD will be identical with PAL. The French/Dutch territories and ex territories will use Euro standard PAL or SECAM for broadcast and PAL DVD. The rest are NTSC.

Most PAL DVD players will convert an NTSC DVD to PAL60 output which is compatible with many PAL TV sets.

SECAM countries/territories use the "PAL" DVD standard. At the YCbCr level there is no difference.

Here is a country/territory list.
http://countrycode.org/tv-standards

[victoriabears]

Is it true that the majority of PAL dvd players will play NTSC fine?,,if so just use NTSC.