Hello to All,
Hi to Wa2ise
you wrote: (i don't know how to use the quote feature)
"Many DVD players can be configured to play the DVD directly in NTSC mode (scan rate and color system). So you can avoid the jutter effects when converting PAL/SECAM to NTSC. Most program material on DVDs are film done at 24fps, so the DVD would just change the 2/3 pull-down rate to accomidate the different scan rate. (I'm assuming that the DVD was incoded at 24fps MPEG2 style).
back in the early days of NTSC color, RCA wanted everyone to start making color TVs and related equipment, and freely gave out the information. RCA would charge nominal patent licensing fees of course. But they would not make any money if they held the information back, as color TV would likely die if they did.
Looks like you need an American Football to European Football (what we call "Soccer") converter.. Or maybe you are converting Soccer to American Football?"
I forgot to mention that i use 2 x DVD players, one of which being permanently in "Country Code 1 USA/Canada" so i don't transcode NTSC movies. Here in France (Europe) players are sold by law as Zone 2, but most sellers will give you the machine's Dezoning code so you can make it operate on any world standard.
The 3rd machine is a Pioneer combo Laserdisk/DVD player as i have an extensive collection of LaserDisks.
For about 15 years, there was a 1 year delay between first showing of films in the US and France, so if you liked a film in the movie house you could buy a US import LaserDisk only 1 or 2 months later. Now, Zone 1 DVDs are not allowed for sale in France IF there is a planned later release in zone 2, but several shops still do "grey imports" for customers they know well and anyway you can get everything you want from mail-order houses on the Internet.
Football/soccer, er not really a fan except at World Cup time....
For Eckhard:
If there is a SECAM specialized site i do not know about it! I am currently working with a producer on a TV documentary on early color and finding anything on Henri de France & SECAM is extremely difficult. With great difficulty we found some material at INA, the state-run national archives, as we had access as professional researchers.
http://www.ina.fr
BTW, since about a year, there are a few thousand hours of vintage French TV documents online for free viewing. Over here, the success of this new service has been huge. Why not have a look at our vintage programs!
We are also in contact with a very aged gentleman who has a SECAM prototype with a US "roundie" CRT and also a prototype grid color CRT whose technology was sold to the Japanese to ultimately bear fruition as the Trinitron
See a picture of the CFT RS-153, a SECAM roundie prototype (circa 1964)
CFT stands for Compagnie Francaise de Television, Henri de France's company. It was later on absorbed by the Thomson (RCA) group.
Best Regards
jhalphen@dial.oleane.com