[SEL] OT ....DVD

[Bob Willman]

	There are at least two players that will play both Blu-ray and HD
DVD formats. They are the LG BH200 and the Samsung BD-UP5000. They are in
the $800.00 class but they are available.
I saw them at www.crutchfield.com 


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Pavlinovich
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:24 AM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] OT ....DVD

Hi Peter, I realise you've already had a few answers on this but here are a
couple more :)

Most USA bought equipment cannot play PAL - the TV and DVD usually are
unable to do it. Some DVD players (generally the cheaper ones) will convert
from PAL to NTSC without the user even knowing they're doing it. 
This means a disk sent from Australia (ignoring the region) will be unlikely
to play. However, generally Aus (and just about anywhere else on the planet)
will play most popular video formats so you can bring an NTSC DVD from the
USA and it will play here (I have heaps).

You will get less problems with cheaper players - the expensive ones (e.g.
Sony) subscribe to the licensing scheme and are still steadfastly ignoring
the market demands in the interests of controlling their own products (Sony
make movies too).

Now onto the good news, portable DVD players (the kind with an inbuilt
screen) generally play any video format and any region - I dare say this is
to market them to travellers. Give one of them a try. You can usually
connect them to a normal TV.

Of course, one final point... there are three principal DVD formats -
standard (everything should play these), and the two High Definition "Blue
Ray" and "Hi Def". These two HD formats are utterly incompatible and to date
I've not seen a single player that will take on both. I have a HD TV but
refuse to buy a HD DVD player to go with it until there is a player than
handles both formats. Remember Beta and VHS? Here we go again. The worst
thing about the HD players is that it isnt just your DVD player that decides
if you are "allowed" to watch something - when connected via an HDMI input
the bloody TV has a say too! Fortunately for me I've got an Hitachi which
will pretend to be in any location you tell it.

Regards
Paul

peter ogborne wrote:
> I know , I have asked this question before but it is confusing with 
> the answers that I have received from other quarters If I sent a DVD 
> ,produced here in Australia and it was done using the PAL system ,to 
> the USA ,could it be played .
> I know that the system used in the US is NTSC but conflicting reports 
> come to me about it's playability!
> The DVD player that my friend in the US has is an Insignia DVD100121 
> Peter Ogborne Little Grove ,Albany West Australia ''Heart of the 
> Rainbow Coast ''
> jopeter at omninet.net.au
>
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