[ale] OT - DVD player NTSC/PAL Region Free

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:45 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> 
>> I doubt MythTV cares about region codes, and any old PC DVD reader
>> will read NTSC and PAL.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm being boneheaded here (stop snickering Aaron!) but I thought
> the DVD disk was irrelevant to the electrical signal output - NTSC vs.
> PAL.

I believe PAL and NTSC videos are encoded with slightly different 
resolutions, frame rates, etc. A DVD player that expects one format 
might not decode the other properly.

-Brian