PAL vs. PAL-M vs. NTSC

[WestbrookNH]

I want to send a DVD to Brazil.

In Brazil, they use PAL-M, which, unlike other PAL formats, has the same frame rate and number of lines as NTSC, but formats the chroma information in PAL.

While MF2SE has a PAL burn option, it does not have a PAL-M option, or any other subset of PAL for that matter.

If I burn a DVD in PAL format, will it play in a PAL-M player?

Will an NTSC DVD play in a PAL-M player?

I have Movie Factory 2 SE (2.12.2166.0000 SE)

Thanks and regards

[jcc]

You can probably use NTSC as modern TV's in my PAL area also have an NTSC capability. Check with your Brazilian contact.

[WestbrookNH]

Thanks, John.

I've been doing some surfing and I found these answers.

From http://www.shootfirst.co.uk/standards.htm

PAL-M is also 525 lines, with 60 fields per second (30 frames per second), but the colour burst signal is handled differently compared with NTSC. PAL-M is not compatible with PAL, but the black and white part of the signal is compatible with NTSC. Only Brazil and Laos use PAL-M so their consumer recorders often have the colour circuitry to play back both NTSC and PAL-M.

And from http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/2/15350.html

HI.
I am from Brazil. 99.99999% of our TV´s are PAL/NTSC compatible. Our DVDs are recorded in NTSC format but with AREA 4 codification. Anything with a NTSC 60hz and 110 to 130V 60Hz compatibility will perform normally here.

So, it looks like I can send my NTSC encoded DVDs to my Brazilian friends and they can view them on their DVD players, as long as I set the region code on the DVD disk to 0 or 4 when I burn it.