PAL or NTSC Replication - US dilemma?

[STech-one]

Hi all,
first post so go easy on me................

Am currently faced with a DVD dilemma as to whether to replicate in our previous style of dual sided PAL and NTSC discs or just PAL. ?
There are running time constraints, its an approx 7 hr release, and the lions share of the market is within Europe. However being a new company with a unique product in a niche market i am extremely conscious of customer opinion and have a great rapport with our NTSC stockists.
So, are US home viewing systems being increasing manufactured and sold as "region free" or "Universal" ?
In your opinion, would you concede that the above plus PC usage would enable most to watch a PAL format disc?
Thanks in advance

[jman98]

I was born in the USA. I live here. I've traveled all over the world and can actually speak more than just English. I can tell you without any hesitation that we in the USA are a nation of morons. Idiots. Brain dead nincompoops.

Maybe 1 person in 1000 (or much much worse) can even tell what PAL and NTSC are. If you want to get something to play in this market, you have no choice but to put it out in NTSC format and put it out as either region 1 or region 0 (all regions). While it is true that many DVD players sold here can convert PAL DVD video to NTSC output, almost nobody knows this. Some players can't do this at all. It is possible to still find DVD players on sale here that can't convert or play PAL DVDs. Almost none of the TVs sold here can display a PAL signal, so people have to know to set up their DVD players to send NTSC output for everything it plays. The default video setting in this country for DVD players is "Auto", which sends out exactly the same signal as the source - PAL for PAL, NTSC for NTSC. Since our TVs can't display PAL correctly, playing a PAL DVD on these players just gives garbage output on the display. "Auto" works great in Europe where most TVs sold are multistandard, but here in the good ol' USA, almost all TVs here can ONLY display NTSC correctly. Even my 1 year old LCD HDTV, which is otherwise an excellent TV (and I have been real happy with it), is completely incapable of correctly displaying PAL DVD video.

If you want to sell in this market, you will sell NTSC DVDs - that's the bottom line.

[bendixG15]

Yea , we don't have to beat this to death,
jman98 said it all
USA is NTSC land.

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