Your right about me being on crack, but mpeg's are not decoded to a PAL or NTSC signal on the fly. It has to be part of the encoding as an NTSC signal is 60 Fields per second, and PAL is 50.
Unlike Europe, in the US most TV's aren't capable of displaying PAL AND NTSC signals, only NTSC. Unless DVD player manufacturers start shipping their players with PAL->NTSC converters, I don't see that the loss off regional encoding will make much difference. We still won't be able to watch imports from europe.
I second that. I purchased a Malata 996 a couple months ago, and have been very pleased. It's a bit more expensive than the Apex models with similiar feature sets, but the quality of the PAL conversion more than makes up for it.
Now if they would only release a player with a Macrovision hack......
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Your right about me being on crack, but mpeg's are not decoded to a PAL or NTSC signal on the fly. It has to be part of the encoding as an NTSC signal is 60 Fields per second, and PAL is 50.
Unlike Europe, in the US most TV's aren't capable of displaying PAL AND NTSC signals, only NTSC. Unless DVD player manufacturers start shipping their players with PAL->NTSC converters, I don't see that the loss off regional encoding will make much difference. We still won't be able to watch imports from europe.
I second that. I purchased a Malata 996 a couple months ago, and have been very pleased. It's a bit more expensive than the Apex models with similiar feature sets, but the quality of the PAL conversion more than makes up for it. Now if they would only release a player with a Macrovision hack......