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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
Basically, the reason each region keeps producing their content at the old NTSC/PAL framerates is so that it can be easily downscaled to SD for SDTV broadcast and DVD (and kept compatible with the old sets). If it weren't for that, it probably wouldn't matter since the HDTVs and Blu-Ray players are all essentially compatible (barring, I suppose, the odd cheap model that's messed up).
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It's actually the players that deal with the downscaling as my old philips BDP3000 (and my PS3 before my first one broke and had to be replaced) always switched to NTSC mode (or PAL60 mode) when it was playing a blu ray disc, and the toshiba BDX1200 (with region free firmware for DVD and BD installed) that I'm currently using doesn't.