Technical question about PAL and Blu Ray upconversion

[welwynnick]

There are two problems - SD video formats, and region-coding.

A US DVD player will only play region 1 DVDs (unless hacked) and will generally only play NTSC DVDs (though there are exceptions).

It’s the same with US BD players. As you say, the video format isn’t relevant any more, but they only play region A or region-free BDs.

Not only that, but they only play region 1 and NTSC DVDs. There are hacks and mods available for some players, but they are generally much less flexible about this than DVD players.

I think this a great shame, as the hardware that every player uses is capable of decoding and processing ALL video formats!

Sorry, Nick