DVD - Playability- Dubai and or Pakistan at DVinfo.net

Mike Moncrief · August 26th, 2009, 06:05 PM

Hi All,

I am creating some DVD's for a client who splits his residence and works traveling between Dubai (UAE) ad also in Pakistan.. The video was shot in the US using NTSC cameras.. So my question is if we author the DVD's using NTSC as our video type.. and we set the Region Code to none.. Will this DVD play in a DVD player in these countries ?? Anyone travel or live there wh can shed some light on this ??

Thanks in advance..

Ervin Farkas · August 26th, 2009, 09:15 PM

Both countries are on PAL standard (easy to find using Google).

Still, not so easy to answer your question. Some DVD players will not care what you feed them, and will put out in the country's standard; some TVs will play everything. The keyword is "some"... that means not all. So in reality, you don't know until your client inserts the disk into the player. I have reports from PAL land both ways...

I would play safe and author both an NTSC and a PAL disk and explain to client that if NTSC works, quality will be higher, but if not, at least he will be able to watch in PAL.

August 26th, 2009, 06:05 PM	#1
Mike Moncrief Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: orlando florida Posts: 414	DVD - Playability- Dubai and or Pakistan Hi All, I am creating some DVD's for a client who splits his residence and works traveling between Dubai (UAE) ad also in Pakistan.. The video was shot in the US using NTSC cameras.. So my question is if we author the DVD's using NTSC as our video type.. and we set the Region Code to none.. Will this DVD play in a DVD player in these countries ?? Anyone travel or live there wh can shed some light on this ?? Thanks in advance.. __________________ Mike Moncrief Vidiot57@yahoo.com www.razorpostproduction.com

August 26th, 2009, 09:15 PM	#2
Ervin Farkas Trustee Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta/USA Posts: 1,800	Both countries are on PAL standard (easy to find using Google). Still, not so easy to answer your question. Some DVD players will not care what you feed them, and will put out in the country's standard; some TVs will play everything. The keyword is "some"... that means not all. So in reality, you don't know until your client inserts the disk into the player. I have reports from PAL land both ways... I would play safe and author both an NTSC and a PAL disk and explain to client that if NTSC works, quality will be higher, but if not, at least he will be able to watch in PAL. __________________ Ervin

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