Universe II... What's the story?

[nbrazzi]

Originally posted by andrew_carter
When you say available for pre-order, do you mean through unicycle.com? If not, will it still be available in Australia?

Thanks,
Andrew

I can't recall what video format Australia uses. Do you guys use NTSC or PAL? Or do you not know?

If NTSC is your flavor, you can order it from Unicycle.com in the USA or Beford in Canada, when its ready. The discs will not be region coded, so if you use NTSC, the first-run North American discs should suit you.

uniryder wrote:
> Sorry to bring a little bad news, but UNiVERsE 2 will not be available
> to Europe (In PAL format) for a little bit. It is going to take a
> little extra time to convert the video and have it duplicated in PAL
> format. Not sure how much longer it will take, but will post a message
> when I have an idea.

What about the DVD? We're quite happy to play NTSC DVDs over here...

Regards,
Mark.

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[andrew_carter]

I'm pretty sure we use PAL here.

Thanks,
Andrew

[pete66]

I'm fairly sure that Australia uses PAL. My dvd player is "multi-zone" so I'll be keen to buy it asap, regardless of where it's from.

[nbrazzi]

Be careful, you impatient, off-shore bandits. You have to consider both "Region Coding" and video standards.

1-Region Coding is a safeguard put on the DVD that makes it so you can't play a DVD unless your DVD player's region matches the region of the disc. USA & Canada is Region 1. The bulk of Europe is Region 2. I can' t play a region 2 disc in my region 1 player.

Universe 2 will be Region 0 - it will play on all players, so you don't have to worry about that. You do have to worry about...

2-Video standards. NTSC, PAL, SECAM. TVs in USA and Japan operate on the NTSC standard - the type of signal. This goes beyond DVDS - it's everything that's on the TV. Television brodcast on the air is NTSC. Europe (minus France) uses PAL. France uses SECAM, etc...

So anyway, Universe 2 will be region 0, so you won't have any problems with player lockout, but your TV will still need to be able to support an NTSC video playback. I know a lot of Europeans have NTSC-capable TVs, so I guess they can do that.

I just want to make sure you guys don't get it and can't play it.