On Nov 22, 2003, at 9:59 PM, Kyle Barrow wrote:
> Sure, but there are headers in the DVD MPEG file which tell the player
> to output the original movie in a format compatible with either NTSC or
> PAL formats so if you pop your PAL region 2 DVD into a Japanese NTSC
> DVD player from Sony et al. you get a nasty message that you can't play
> the movie.
Hmmm... I bought a DVD player in Japan, and brought some DVDs from
France. They play perfectly; the only problem I have is that when the
aspect ratio of the program is wider than 4/3, then the image is
stretched vertically. I thought this had something to do with PAL/SECAM
having more lines than NTSC. Fortunately, my 4/3 TV has a so-called
16/9 mode which shrinks the image back to a ratio close to the intended
one.
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Julien Quint, Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics
Hitotsubashi 2-1-2-1312, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
Tel +81 (0)3-4212-2596 Fax +81 (0)3-3556-1916 E-mail quint@nii.ac.jp
Received on Sat Nov 22 16:41:39 2003