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Duncan H wrote on 11/24/2014, 4:34 PM
Hi Marc. I live in Australia and you are correct, we are in PAL land. I think the answer to your question is that it will completely depend upon how your relative is to play the DVD. If it is to be viewed on a P.C / laptop with a DVD slot, then I'd assume such software can cope with NTSC (mine can). If your relative is using a dedicated DVD player connected to a television and that DVD player has multiregion/ multiformat capabilities (& I think that they have been common for a long time here), then that should work. If he / she happened to have quite an old DVD standalone player, maybe an issue. Sorry, info probably doesn't help alot. Can you not ask your relative??
Marc S wrote on 11/24/2014, 5:00 PM
Thanks Duncan I will ask them what they are using. Do NTSC dvds look ok when they play back on your system or does the different frame rate, size wtc. cause artifacting?
PeterDuke wrote on 11/24/2014, 5:31 PM
When DVDs started to become popular in Australia many years ago, I bought a DVD player (complete with a copy of Spiderman) and connected it to my old NEC TV. It played OK except for two NTSC DVDs that came my way. The player was able to play NTSC but the TV was unable to sync to the 60 fields per second (the picture rolled). When I bought a new CRT TV, I was able to watch those DVDs.

So, unless your friends only have a really really old CRT TV, I think that you can assume that they will be able to view an NTSC DVD.

Modern gear in Australia is designed to play both NTSC and PAL without any artefacts.

If you will have to convert 60i NTSC video to 50i PAL to make your PAL DVD, they will definitely get better quality when viewing the unconverted 60i NTSC.
Marc S wrote on 11/24/2014, 6:58 PM
Thanks Peter!
farss wrote on 11/24/2014, 7:57 PM
Same experience here, you'd be hard pressed to find a DVD player and TV down here that doesn't play NTSC.

Bob.