Does a PAL/NTSC DVD player play PAL discs on NTSC displays at true speed or PAL speed?
I've only ever come across one standards-converting DVD player, and that only converted from NTSC to PAL by dropping every nth frame.
If there is a player than converts from PAL to NTSC (and I doubt there is), if it didn't stick to PAL speed it would have to decode and resample the audio.
I think it's InterVideo's DVD software that has a "PAL Truespeed" option - it slows PAL discs down to 24fps and resamples the audio, but this breaks the outputting of AC3/DTS on a SPDIF output.
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