In the "Video Formats" section you have NTSC & PAL options that are greyed out when it is a Blu-ray (not applicable)

Can we have 720p, 1080i and 1080p added to this field.

NTSC and Pal are indeed not applicable. The frame rate may still be different though (50 vs. 60 Hz).

Personally, I would put two possible fields:

One with the resolution: 1080p or 1080i (I've yet to see a BD with a 720p resolution, so seems a bit redundant)

One with the video codec used: AVC, MPEG2, MPEG4 (H.264) and VC-1

NTSC and PAL are still applicable but only for 480p bonus features and menus. Although not sure if it's worth to profile this.

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One with the resolution: 1080p or 1080i (I've yet to see a BD with a 720p resolution, so seems a bit redundant)

I actually pre-ordered a recently released Blu-ray, and then cancelled it after seeing a DVDBeaver review where the transfer was confirmed via two software programs as 720 resolution.

An HD resolution field of some kind as suggested by ninehours would be a wise addition to the program.

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Really? From my understanding 480p is 480p, not NTSC.

NTSC DVDs have 720x480, PAL DVDs have 720x576.

So bonus material in 480p has an NTSC-source, a PAL-source should be 576p (but I don't know if this is supported by Blu-Ray-standards).

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Quoting Taro:

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One with the resolution: 1080p or 1080i (I've yet to see a BD with a 720p resolution, so seems a bit redundant)

Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics

All Regions

Released: 25.03.2008

Widescreen 1.78:1

has 720p material ... but that and other test-discs really might be the only ones using this resolution right now.
[b]That can change though if more HDTV-broadcast, which will be 720p, comes to BD and the pencil-pusher cut the expanses for the upconverting, because BD-Player and/or HDTV-Set can to that.

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NTSC and PAL are still applicable but only for 480p bonus features and menus. Although not sure if it's worth to profile this[/b].

Really? From my understanding 480p is 480p, not NTSC.

cya, Mithi

I anticipate that this may well happen, mithi. Think of what could be packed onto a BD disc in 720P, or even worse in SD. I know some material in HD is simply overkill, I'll take an example of a possibility. I might be proven wrong by Paramount, but at this juncture I don't envision I Love Lucy on BD in Hi-Def, perhaps 720P, but even DVD SD exceeds the original broadcasts. Let's see I Love Lucy was 40 odd Discs on DVD, on a BD disc in SD that could be reduced to what 5 maybe 6 discs.

You are also correct about 480 not being NTSC, particularly 480P. The Orinal NTSC standard back in the early days of video was a 525 line interlaced image, each image that the human eye perceived was made up of two interlaced frames. Back in the earliest days of video this caused majopr problems for freeze frame as the heads were reading essentially two frames of data separated in time, in afilm this was not a big deal but in sports, it caused the infamous freeze frame jitter.The way this eventually dealt with when they moved to sophisticated four-head decks was they would read one frame twice and interlace the two. Some of them even interpolated the missing data.

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The big issue here is indeed the player and not the TV. I've done tests and here are the results:

My player: Japanese PS3 (plays region 2 DVD's and region A BD's) :
- PAL DVD (reg 2) => does not play, format unsupported
- EU BD (reg free, no PAL) => plays fine
- EU BD (reg free, with PAL menu) => video plays but unable to display PAL menu (this was the Zatoichi UK BD borrowed from a friend)

My friend has european PS3 (plays region 2 DVD's & region B BD's) :
- PAL DVD (reg 2) => plays perfectly, upscalled
- EU BD's => all play regardless of PAL imagery or not

In short, even when you have the exact same equipment, sometimes brands will take out the PAL suupport for regions that supposedly don't need it. This is an abberration since Japan is in the same DVD region as Europe, but doesn't support PAL in their BD players