Originally posted by: vbangle

Originally posted by: Kurgan
Cool. So, the obvious questions next...

How different in quality will the PAL version be from the NTSC?

Will there be any point in NTSC users converting the PAL version to their format to watch (rather than waiting for you to do it)?

PAL DVDs won't play in most NTSC rack DVD players, there are region free DVD players but most people in NTSC land don't have those.

Actually, the DVD regions are different from the NTSC PAL differences. The regions are put in place to unethically (IMHO) keep people from playing discs they bought from regions other than their own. For example, Battlestar Galactica season 3 was released in the UK before it was in the US. The DVD companies don't want someone buying it in the UK and bringing it home to US, where they will not buy it when it is finally released locally. Any DVD you burn yourself will be region free, but the format of the video itself will still either follow PAL or NTSC standards. With my Philips DVD player, and my Emerson TV (both bought from Wal-Mart here in the USA, no modifications made) I have absolutely no problems watching my PAL DVDs.

I lived in DVD Region 2 land for a while so many of my movies are PAL, my player will not play my commercially purchased movies because they are region encoded to R2 but my DVD player is an R1 player. In the past my solution to this was to make a DVD-R copy of the disc, effectively removing the region encoding. While they are still in PAL format they play just fine on my American DVD player. However, I loaned a couple to my parents one time and their DVD player could play it, but their TV screen couldn't display the PAL signal. My cousins Sony DVD player will just outright say that the disc is in the wrong format.

Some DVD players, like the old Apex units used to have an option in the menu for changing the signal to NTSC or PAL. Back before my Apex died it seemed to be able to play PAL format discs on any TV I have ever hooked it up too.

So, as far as being able to watch the PAL version of Revisited on your DVD player, it really depends on whether or not your both your DVD player and TV can handle it. If they are a cheap TV and DVD player, I wouldn't be surprised if it worked just fine. If they are top of the line, Sony brand, or anything like that, I'd say your chances are slim. If you can get it from a.b.star.wars and don't have a limit on how much you can pull off of news groups, why not get the PAL version, and try it out. At the very least you can watch it on your computer, then you can just download the NTSC version when it comes out and toss the PAL one away.

Hope this gives a more detailed answer to those who are feeling a bit confused about this.