So called Professional UK DVD recorded in 'NTSC' !!!

[Greycom4]

I recently bought a Professionaly produced DVD of my local UK amature theatre musical.
It appears now that the recording has been made with American purchased NTSC cameras and
the format is in NTSC Mpeg2 720 x 480. The quality if fairly poor and I would be grateful if someone
can confirm if the quality would probably have been improved if the whole process was done in PAL 720 x 576.
It plays in Black & White on one of my old TV's, however I have now resolved this.

[robertazimmerman]

The difference would have theoretically been marginally better. If the video on the NTSC version was poor, the PAL version would likely have been poor too.

[SLK001]

Probably the quality wouldn't be all that bad if you could view it on a NTSC capable TV. Unless, of course, it was recorded with consumer quality analog video tape, then captured with some capture card.

And it playing in black and white is typical of a mismatched color (colour?) burst signal.

[manono]

The quality if fairly poor and I would be grateful if someone
can confirm if the quality would probably have been improved if the whole process was done in PAL 720 x 576.

The quality would have been equally bad in PAL. Quite a few commercial retail R2 DVDs are NTSC, even R2 DVDs from the UK. After all, Japan is R2 and that country is NTSC. Only the oldest TV sets in your country have any trouble at all playing NTSC DVDs.

[Greycom4]

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply, much appreciated.

[RabidDog]

"Only the oldest TV sets in your country have any trouble at all playing NTSC DVDs. "
Most Tv sets in the Uk will not play DVD's, either in NTSC or PAL format..
.....or Blu-ray or Vcd or VCR