Percent of players that (secretly) support PAL?
05-04-15 | 07:28 PM
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Thread Starter
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Percent of players that (secretly) support PAL?
Would anybody hazard an educated guess? I'm not talking about region-free capabilities or DVD players from 1998 that have long been retired. What percent of DVD and Blu-Ray players in use in North America today would competently play a region 0 PAL DVD? It's gotta be well over 50%, right?
05-04-15 | 11:07 PM
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Re: Percent of players that (secretly) support PAL?
Some brands in North America do not play PAL at all. Sony and Panasonic come to mind.
05-04-15 | 11:26 PM
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Re: Percent of players that (secretly) support PAL?
Samsung doesn't, though it does play PAL (or 50hz, or whatever you call them) Blu-Rays. Oppo does of course, and even converts it to NTSC at the right frame rate if you need that.
05-05-15 | 10:18 PM
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Re: Percent of players that (secretly) support PAL?
Thanks for the replies. Not looking to buy one myself as I already own two, but posed it as a sort of trivia question.
I recently bought a UK DVD via Amazon UK, but from a US seller, and while they sold it without hassle, they sent a followup email to "school" me on PAL compatibility. I was sure their comments were much too pessimistic, but now am not so sure. I bought my parents a JVC player a number of years ago which apparently plays and outputs PAL just fine, so figured there must be lots of them hiding in plain sight.
I recently bought a UK DVD via Amazon UK, but from a US seller, and while they sold it without hassle, they sent a followup email to "school" me on PAL compatibility. I was sure their comments were much too pessimistic, but now am not so sure. I bought my parents a JVC player a number of years ago which apparently plays and outputs PAL just fine, so figured there must be lots of them hiding in plain sight.
