..in DVD MPEG2 to DVD MPEG2 format - is this possible with TMPGEnc? Most importantly, will the result be 100% okay, and do justice to the quality you'd expect from DVD, or will it look/sound like a cheap conversion?

Searching the forum archive, some peeps don't beleive PAL/NTSC conversions can be achieved "judder free", but yes they can, with Canopus DV Format Convertor (DV format only & expensive) ...or are necessary...oh but they are, for peeps in U.S. wanting to view PAL properly. As I understand it, DVD players output whatever the disc format is, PAL as PAL, NTSC as NTSC, but U.S. TV's won't play the PAL signal properly.