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Is the Progressive Scan DVD playback only for NTSC?


Kain

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Well? I thought I read somewhere that only NTSC DVDs have Progressive Scan. Is this true? Or am I being a complete idiot? cwm13.gif

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Anyone?

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Will be getting the following in December.

Home Theater:

TV: Sony KV-ES38M91 (38" FD Trinitron WEGA)

Receiver: Denon AVC-A11SR (230V version of Denon AVR-4802)

DVD player: Sony DVP-S9000ES

VCR: Sony SLV-ED100 (HiFi VCR)

Center: Klipsch RC-7

Mains: Klipsch RF-7

Surrounds: Klipsch RS-7

Subwoofer: SVS CS-Ultra w/Samson S1000 amplifier

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Sorry, I just found out that you were wrong. All my DVDs are PAL.

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Will be getting the following in December.

Home Theater:

TV: Sony KV-ES38M91 (38" FD Trinitron WEGA)

Receiver: Denon AVC-A11SR (230V version of Denon AVR-4802)

DVD Player: Sony DVP-S9000ES

VCR: Sony SLV-ED100 (HiFi VCR)

Center: Klipsch RC-7

Mains: Klipsch RF-7

Surrounds: Klipsch RS-7

Subwoofer: SVS CS-Ultra w/Samson S1000 amplifier

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Wow there is a lot of wrong information here:

First off all DVD's are not NTSC. There are 6 regions of DVD (geographical) and they come in PAL, NTSC and even SECAM (possibly more for all I know).

Secondly progressive scan started out as NTSC only but is now becoming available for PAL. (one Toshiba does it but with only 480 lines resolution).

The delay was caused because PAL works at a higher resultion than NTSC and it was simply more demanding on the technology to perform progressive scan with more lines.

If you want the Rolls Royce solution the cinematrix card does pal and ntsc progressive scan up to 1,300 lines resolution but that is mainly for projectors and is an expensive add on to a standard DVD player (it fits most).

PAL TV's are not 50 Hz only. Mine is 100 Hz. Hz are not the same as frames per second. Hz refer to the refresh rate of the television and is independent of the frames per second of the source.

I think that NTSC does use a higher number FPS than PAL but I recall that the numbers are 25 and 30 FPS - not 50 of 60.

Of course I am no expert on Video, but the above is certainly closer to the truth than most of the responses here.

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