The IBF online store is selling DVDs of this year Thomas/Uber Cups for 25 pounds. Bad thing is that the DVDs are PAL format not NTSC format http://www.smashstore.com/Index.pasp
If you find out where you can buy some on-line (esp. DVD), please post the website here. I too visited IBF website and was disappointed to find out it's in PAL format. DVD is great stuff - it's clearer and great for slow motion.
I've emailed the contact to ask about getting those vides in NTSC format. Let's see if I get a response
DVD format The disc is coded in PAL format, but are DVD players also format-specific, so that only a PAL format player can read PAL discs, or does the normal player read all format discs and just passes the signal through to the TV? I'm asking because I have a converter VCR that I could input a PAL signal to and get NTSC output to my TV.
Re: DVD format It think it depends on how well the DVD-player is equipped. Here in Europe there are a lot of DVD-players in the PAL region that can play both PAL and NTSC. NTSC discs play fine on my DVD player with PAL-only television.
Search the internet and you can find DVD players that can play both NTSC and PAL DVD format. Mine can do that. I don't want to put the brand name here because I don't want to do free advistisment.
I sent the website an email asking about the duration of the DVD and if any full games are included, last week. No reply yet.
I ordered the Uber cup DVD last week, and received it today ! There are full games on this disk, actually most games of the 4 matches played between China and Korea are on it. The quality is very good, it is so nice that it won't worn because of viewing What disappointed me was that those matches are practically the only thing on the disc. Only some tables with results of the final phase and that's it. No nice tables with all country's who participated from round 1 and further, no team or player details of those country's. And no games that has been played prior to the final between China and Korea. I don't understand why they put a single layer single sided disk in the box instead of a full disk with lots of stuff.
nSmash, total playing for this Uber cup DVD is 1 hour and 41 minutes. I have to do a little correction on my last post, there is a 3 minutes summary of matches played in the final phase, prior to the final between China and Korea Also, some games are not shown completely, but from for instance 3-1.
For y'all info on diff DVDs, besides various dvd region codings, pal & ntsc dvds are different. as resident of US, just wanted to let ya'll know that if you're in US with most DVD players being ntsc, you cannot view this dvd. BUT, most computer DVD players & software decoders can play ntsc AND pal dvds. gluck
I guess you've no luck so far huh... I checked out another site: http://website.lineone.net/~racketsports/videos.htm They've 2000 Uber/Thomas Cup highlight, however no 2002's. Maybe we can lobby them and see if we can get better luck?
