Help on Pal & Ntsc Format

Also, if you want a PAL DVD is very easy to convert from NTSC The only thing you have to do is IFOEdit all .IFOs from the dvd and change all the NTSC instances to PAL (and its respecting screen resolution, which is 720 x 576) Anyways, the PAL DVD Player will be able to read NTSC DVDs just fine (Sorry I goofed, but now this post has been corrected)

Simply changing the designation in the ifo files does not make the video NTSC compliant. It will probably play on a computer, but not in an NTSC DVD player. There is much more to converting than that, resolutions and framerates are different.

No, I meant the other way around, from an NTSC DVD to a PAL DVD, changing from PAL instances to NTSC instances. Sorry for the confusion that might be generated...

It doesn't matter which way you are going, NTSC and PAL video are not interchangeable. They must be re-encoded to the proper resolution, and processed in some way to adjust for the framerate difference. Simply saying it is NTSC or PAL in an ifo file does not perform the conversion. It may trick a software player, and may even work on dual standard standalones, as are used in most of the world except North America. But in an NTSC only player like mine, it does not work. If it were that simple people would not have spent years on programs to make these conversions.

Yes, I agree with that.... I meant from NTSC to PAL and NOT the other way around NTSC players only read NTSC and will never read PAL discs even if they are tricked to.... so what I meant to say is that ZeroHash should create an NTSC disc for the whole world, and if in any case the disc wouldn't work, just tricking the hardware by editing the IFOS and changing the NTSC setting into PAL setting and changing the screen resolution: 720 x 576 would make the disc work properly ;)

The marketing strategy is simple: With restricted budget, make NTSC region 0. With more generous budget, make 2 versions, both region 0. Fools no one with simplest approach explanation, no trouble thereafter.