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Originally Posted by turbine
sNewer DVD players do, Blu-ray players just play everything (23.98 up to 59.97 Hz) as long as the disc itself is codefree. The only issue might be the display, although everything made after 2010 should be fine, too.
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Most NA Blu-ray players do not play PAL. I've had four different region A locked players and only the PS4 plays PAL content...and the conversion is terrible compared to my region free blu-ray player. Only Europe gets the play both PAL and NTSC capability regularly.
As pointed out above, most PAL DVDs aren't pitch shifted to correct the audio, so it is in fact an issue. I generally don't mind though.
NTSC pull down is something that can actually be fixed with on HDTVs and players with the right settings. It involves using Motionflow/Pure Motion/etc., but the default auto settings won't do it. On my Samsung, you set it to custom and both values to 0 and you get the desired effect - the pulldown judder is gone but none of the bad effects of these options appear (looks much more like theatrical projection and Blu-ray than before.)
As for resolution, it seems to be a small difference and compression quality is vastly more important.