PAL video in the states

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Jan 13 10:41:50 CST 2017


> On Jan 13, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to make
>> a DVD (in the USA) that my sister in Holland would be able to use.  The
>> impression I got is that PAL DVD players will usually accept NTSC DVDs, and
>> modern PAL TVs will accept a *digital* data stream of NTSC video from such
>> a player.  But that doesn't necessarily mean they will accept NTSC analog
>> (for VCR output for example).  Your report fits that story.
>> 
>> 
> As loathe as I am to recommend Windows software, I seem to recall that Nero
> will do a reasonable ("acceptably lossy") job of converting DVDs between
> PAL/NTSC.

Thanks.  On the Mac, iDVD will do this (more precisely, make a DVD in either format from digital source material, which is what I have).  

	paul



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