PAL? NSTC? What's going on?

[ShiekahSage]

I am currently trying to find a Blu Ray player and I have found a guy who is willing to sell me one for a cheap price However, he lives in the UK and it is designed for a PAL format TV. I live in the US, which uses NSTC. I read the article on wikipedia about the vaious TV formats and it was too full of technical jargon to understand.

Will someone plaese explain to me what the diffrences in the formats are and if it will work on my TV?

[Shikaino]

PAL and NTSC technologies both work in a standard tv these days, it's mostly to do with the frame rates and the colour. I can't exactly go into detail myself, but I'm sure somebody else will better than I can.

[nighthawkx]

any reader should be compatible with either. worst case scenario you flash the firmware.

EDIT: was thinking drive for a PC

well you might be SOL, blu ray discs are regionally encoded so unless you wnat to import movies...

FYI going rate for entry level blu ray players is around $150ish now.

[Hylian Z]

NSTC and PAL are region encoding for media.

Most European and Australasian areas use PAL, America and Japan use NSTC.

If you buy a PAL blu-ray player, expect to also buy PAL encoded media.

[ShiekahSage]

So basically if I buy a PAL blu ray I have to buy PAL movies? In that case I think I'll just find an NSTC one here.

[Twilight Wolf]

Originally Posted by ShiekahSage

So basically if I buy a PAL blu ray I have to buy PAL movies? In that case I think I'll just find an NSTC one here.

That's probably your best bet.