Originally posted by: boris

Anyway, what was this thread about?... or wait, did he tell you not to take the matte-boxes out? I can't see him saying that, or that DVD>=X0 quality... I can see he rambled on about converting Laserman's X0 player into a PAL machine (though it doesn't look like he started the discussion on that just continued it). It makes me think now, if the X0 is the greatest laserdisc player, ever, how come it could only play NTSC? I mean there are players that play both pal and ntsc and automatically flip sides too! Anyway, I'm sure the Japanese had no use for PAL or something.

Boris....

I see you looked through the thread, but if you'd paid attention, you would see that the X0 LD player's circuitry is dedicated solely to NTSC.

Read this http://www.x0project.com/articles.php?i=00001

If you read it, it would tell you that

- "Built by Pioneer solely for the Japanese domestic market": that means it's solely in NTSC.

"the Pioneer HLD-XØ (that's X zero) cost a fortune and was designed to do exactly one thing: play NTSC laserdiscs like no other player before or since." Maybe that will tell you something... I don't know.

-"The XØ has 37 low-impedance active power regulators strewn throughout its innards, so the image is remarkably free from noise of any kind, and it has five (yes, five!) NTSC decoders in parallel to average out any errors in the signal stream." I don't know if you understand that part, but what it's basically saying is that the machine was built using the best parts to give a superior NTSC signal. I'm sure it would have been feasible to do PAl as well, but I'm sure that 7000 dollars is expensive enough for an LD player.