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  1. I'm having a problem. I have a bunch of PAL DVD's. I want to be able to capture the video to my computer as NTSC to re-author the DVD's.

    Could I buy a cheap DVD player that converts the signal to NTSC then capture the NTSC video to my computer using my video capture card?

    Would that work???
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    If I'm not mistaking, the "cheap" DVD player that converts the signal wouldn't be true NTSC. I went through this about a month ago.. the signal would actually be an NTSC-50 (which according to my knowledge is pretty much a signal that is compatible with an NTSC television, but 25fps / 50 fields per second). If your capture card is set to capture 29.97 fps, the signal would be screwed up. There might be setting on you capture card to capture NTSC-50 (maybe it has another term?) in which case you'll wind up with an disk compatible on NTSC TV sets. I'm sure others will chime in with some more detailed/confident answers.
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  3. I was looking at this ( Philips DVP 642) DVD player to do it for me. All I want to do is to capture NTSC Video from A Pal DVD. This player says it converts PAL To NTSC so I asummed it would do that.
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    I think that model actually allows for true PAL playback and true NTSC playback, but I think the "conversion" is not a true conversion.
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  5. well I'm looking for one that's under $100 and available at future shop. Is there any models that actually do a true NTSC conversion? I could always try this one and if it doesn't work i can return it.
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    Originally Posted by m_vallee
    I'm having a problem. I have a bunch of PAL DVD's. I want to be able to capture the video to my computer as NTSC to re-author the DVD's.

    Could I buy a cheap DVD player that converts the signal to NTSC then capture the NTSC video to my computer using my video capture card?

    Would that work???
    That would be a good way to view the DVDs you have now but a poor way to capture if you are looking to preserve the origial quality. Hard way is to do a software transcode but the end results should be better.
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    Originally Posted by m_vallee
    well I'm looking for one that's under $100 and available at future shop. Is there any models that actually do a true NTSC conversion? I could always try this one and if it doesn't work i can return it.
    To do true hardware conversion, you're going to have to pay around $300 for a dedicated digital converter. You can get cheaper ones for around $150-200, but the results are cheaper too.

    For progressive sources (most non-animated commercial DVDs), software methods are probably the best way to go about it.

    For interlaced sources, the best way would be a dedicated hardware converter, but not many people want to pay for that for just a few conversions. You can also pay someone else to do this conversion for you (I know LordSmurf offers conversion services).

    If you're looking for just the ability to play the DVD on your own player, why not just buy a player like the DVP-642 and play it on that? You can make backups in PAL and just play those on your DVP-642 as well.
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  8. I would like to keep the quality but doesn't the audio not line up with the video when converting from PAL To NTSC? How do I do this the hard way anyway?

    I use AVS Video Converter and TMPEG Enc
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    There have been many PAL-NTSC transcode threads. Best read those first.
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