On 1 Aug 2009, at 22:14, David Hobby wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
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DVD region codes. NTSC or PAL? Stereo or 5.1? Dolby or DTS?
Component or HDMI? Upscale to 720P or 1080i?
William-- I agree with you on some, and want to add an
item.
DVD region codes: Not in the consumer's interest. I wound up buying
my wife a multiregion DVD player, just so we could watch German DVDs.
All my DVD players are multi-region. This is pretty standard in the UK.
NTSC vs. PAL: Not a fair criticism. That mess was created a LONG
time ago, and was also a problem with VHS tapes. (A bigger problem,
since the players were analog.)
Even with HD the frame rate (50Hz/60hz) is still different between
NTSC and PAL. (NTSC and PAL have nothing to do with HD being analog
formats but the 50/60 Hz is the same so the labels have stuck). My
home theatre DVD upscaling DVD player autoconverts these depending
whether I have the output set to NTSC or PAL. Since my TV can sync at
either 50Hz or 60Hz HD I have to change this setting to watch PAL/
NTSC DVDs in "native" format and avoid conversion which is a lossy
process.
The others you list: It's still possible to just go with the defaults
there.
If the default is stereo I lose the benefit of my 800W 5.1 speaker
system :) And if there is a Dolby and a DTS soundtrack I have to
manually select the (better) DTS soundtrack.
That non-bypassable FBI and/or Interpol warning: This is actually
a loss for DVDs. With VHS, you could ALWAYS fast-forward. Why
aren't there hacks to skip the start-up warnings on DVDs?
---David
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