I just want to add my experience with this problem
I'm distributing a French film "Murder of a Hatmaker"
I received from the director DVDs with notice that they are Multi-zone,
I sold some in USA to university libraries, I got complaints that the NTSC
players can't read the DVD, I got our studio to transform to NTSC and I
resent those copies to the university libraries.
I know there was no problem to play the DVD on a computer, as the EMRO
reviewer wrote the review after viewing the original multi-zone DVD on the
comp,
cheers
Nahum Laufer
http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php
http://docsforeducation.com/
Sales
Docs for Education
Erez Laufer Films
Holland st 10
Afulla 18371
Israel
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:20:30 +0000
From: Deg Farrelly <deg.farre...@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] PAL and SECAM
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Thanx, Judy
I guess I missed the part of the conversation about the video being in VHS.
Completely off my radar now.
Even if a computer DVD drive will play a PAL DVD, I have heard that after X
number of uses the drive will lock onto the non-NTSC standard and will
thereafter play ONLY that standard.
Of so I have heard.
-deg
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