Can the same device be used to convert all types to DVD’s?
You pose an interesting question – you’ve got an incredibly wide range of video formats. More than I’ve ever seen myself. Let me address your specific questions: >Do DVD’s too come in similar formats ? Yes. There are two things you need to be aware of when doing DVD conversions: Screen resolution and region coding: Screen resolution: This is similar to the formats you bring up below – depending on the type of DVD player you’re playing it on (like American versus European), a DVD can be encoded for particular resolution: NTSC or PAL. And unless you get special equipment, you can NOT play a NTSC disk in a PAL device. However, that special equipment does exist. There are converter boxes that can take, for example, a PAL signal and encode it to NTSC. Here’s an example of a NTSC to PAL converter box. Region coding: Commercial DVDs are almost always tagged with a “region code”. A region code is a method used to prevent people in one location from watching that DVD in another location. A DVD
