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Thread: Good place for PAL dvd-r's?

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    Bebi's Avatar Super Duper Member
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    the suprnvoa mirror is just flooded with ntsc now and it plays on my tv but its stuck on 4:3 cos I put a firmware hack to get them to play but I want a full screen dvd so is there a good site?


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    Chewie's Avatar Chew E. Bakke
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bebi
    the suprnvoa mirror is just flooded with ntsc now and it plays on my tv but its stuck on 4:3 cos I put a firmware hack to get them to play but I want a full screen dvd so is there a good site?
    both pal and ntsc can be encoded as 4:3 or 16:9 fullscreen is 4:3 anyway dont get stuff labelled ws is all.
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    why 4:3 ???? almost everyone hates 4:3

    Full screen is a cropped picture. You aren't seeing everything that you saw in the theater. The widescreen version is the aspect ratio that it was seen in the theaters.



    try newsgroups

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    god 99% of DVD players and TVs play NTSC and PAL anyway

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    yeah and if my dvd plays an ntsc dvd it is stuck on 4:3... because it didnt even take region 1 before I put in a firmware hack now it can play them but I cant choose my screensize so I prefer Pal ones and would like to know where to get them


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    re-encode them to pal after you download them?

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    big pain in the ass


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