Re: [Zappa-List] A Question of DVD formats

2005-05-18 Thread Gabriel
You´re pretty much right on most of it, Richard. About pal-m however, it´s not compatible with european Pal because pal-m was developed here by the military as a way of protecting the brazilian tv industry (or so they thought, i´m simplifying the story a lot here). It´s actually a modification of p

Re: [Zappa-List] A Question of DVD formats

2005-05-18 Thread Richard
Its probably a political/isolationist thing. They just don't want you getting corrupted by seeing rude and weird Zappa stuff...LOL. I'm a bit geographically/world politics dumb, so apologies about my next question. Is the government there still of a military origin? That would explain a lo