DVD Formatting In Thailand

[skylane 6]

We want to give my wife's family a copy of our wedding DVD and I'm fairly sure we are going to need to convert it from NTSC to PAL formatting.

Anybody have any experience with this? Do they need conversion at all?

[Karee 4,190]

We want to give my wife's family a copy of our wedding DVD and I'm fairly sure we are going to need to convert it from NTSC to PAL formatting.

Anybody have any experience with this? Do they need conversion at all?

Definitely needs to be PAL.

I found this on the net:

http://www.bestshareware.net/howto/convert-between-pal-and-ntsc-formats.htm

[Karee 4,190]

Definitely needs to be PAL.

I found this on the net:

http://www.bestshare...tsc-formats.htm

rant

It's really quite annoying the U.S. failure to adopt the rest of the worlds standards. Metric etc. I'm in telecom and I run into it all the time. The U.S. has a standard, the rest of the world uses an international standard that almost all countries follow.

Arrogance I guess. Look at the Susan B Anthony dollar. Could've saved the government some big money. No one would accept it. In Canada they just said this is the way it is. No more 1 or 2 dollar bills. They are coins now in Canada.

/rant

I do know that when you buy a DVD there are region codes. I've run in to that mess before buying a PAL formatted DVD and then trying to play it on a DVD player when the region codes don't match.

Edited August 9, 2012 by Karee

[skylane 6]

Thanks for the info!

Definitely needs to be PAL.

I found this on the net:

http://www.bestshareware.net/howto/convert-between-pal-and-ntsc-formats.htm

[Danger Fire 1]

rant

It's really quite annoying the U.S. failure to adopt the rest of the worlds standards. Metric etc. I'm in telecom and I run into it all the time. The U.S. has a standard, the rest of the world uses an international standard that almost all countries follow.

Arrogance I guess. Look at the Susan B Anthony dollar. Could've saved the government some big money. No one would accept it. In Canada they just said this is the way it is. No more 1 or 2 dollar bills. They are coins now in Canada.

/rant

I do know that when you buy a DVD there are region codes. I've run in to that mess before buying a PAL formatted DVD and then trying to play it on a DVD player when the region codes don't match.

The development and implementation of three standards (PAL, NTSC, SECAM) had nothing to do with arrogance. All of them at the time of development offered different technical advantages.

In Thailand I have come across many TVs and DVD players that were capable of playing both PAL and NTSC. I've even bought a NTSC DVD (some movie) in Thailand at Mang Pong, and it played fine with my wife's ancient equipment. But if you want to be 100% sure, get in converted.

Region coding is a flawed system of maintaining different price points in different markets, and a is a form copyright protection.