PAL blu ray movies and 50hz

[lostn]

1. If you have a US PS3 (or other BD player) and you play a PAL movie on it, will it be 50hz or 60hz? By PAL I mean Region B I guess.

2. Theoretically, if you play a region free US movie on your PAL PS3 or PAL BD player, will it be 60hz?

3. Between PAL and NTSC BD movies, is the refresh, framerate, and resolution, and color identical?

4. Will the Xbox 360 HD DVD addon work when connected to a PS3?

I suppose if you know the case for HD DVD as well, you could share that also...

[sj33]

I can only answer 3 and 4.

All Blu-Ray and HD-DVD films are 1080p 24fps (cinema standard). No 50Hz, no 60Hz, the footage is pure 24fps. This is a good thing.

360 HD-DVD addon will not work on PS3. I'm told it can work on PC with hacked drivers though.

[fahrenheit]

film is encoded as 1080 at 24p (24Hz) on Blu-ray as standard. Output to any other standard is a function of the hardware (set by the user) and not the software (disc).

For non-film based productions, 25i/p encoding can be used but I can't answer whether a US PS3 is capable of correctly output such streams but its probably not an option within the US PS3's software.


*damn too slow

[sj33]

Curious, can they actually encode in 29.97p? As don't a lot of NTSC TV programs use that?

[fahrenheit]

Yip, its just the film-based stuff that gets the 24p treatment.

[lostn]

From what I hear, the PS3 can't do 1080p24, but can only do 1080p60. So does that mean movies playing on PS3 could be 60hz/50hz with framerate differences?

[fahrenheit]

The video would have to be encoded as 25p/i for 50Hz sources and thats only going to happen with video sources like TV shows.

For films, the video is still encoded as 24p on the disc, so expect that the lionshare of what you will be watching will be 60Hz with 3:2 pulldown.