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[Shifty Geezer]

Dunno what this has to do with the topic, but as someone who knows nothing about this area but who knows how to type things into Google

http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.40

There's enormous confusion about whether DVD video is progressive or interlaced. Here's the one true answer: Progressive-source video (such as from film) is usually encoded on DVD as interlaced field pairs that can be reinterleaved by a progressive player to recreate the original progressive video. See 3.8 for further explanation of interlaced and progressive scanning.

http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.8

DVD is specifically designed to be displayed on interlaced-scan displays, which represent 99.9 percent of the more than one billion TVs worldwide. However, most DVD content comes from film, which is inherently progressive. To make film content work in interlaced form, the video from each film frame is split into two video fields —240 lines in one field, and 240 lines in the other— and encoded as separate fields in the MPEG-2 stream.

Can we trust the source?
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#0.3

Jim has worked with interactive media for over 20 years, developing educational software, laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and DVDs, along with teaching workshops, seminars, and university courses. He writes articles and columns about DVD for publications such as Widescreen Review, serves as President of the DVD Association, and sits on advisory boards of leading-edge companies in the DVD industry. Jim was formerly DVD Evangelist at Microsoft, and is currently Chief of DVD Technology and General Manager of the Advanced Technology Group at Sonic Solutions, the leading developer of DVD authoring systems.

Anyone want to continue arguing the point?

 

[supervegeta]

PAL is 576i, but "i" nonetheless.

The dvd encoding support both interlaced and progressive video, so it only up to the company to decide how release the video.

A lot of Pal dvd are stored on dvd as 25 progressive frame/second, this is what i found from the internet :

"There are 2 kinds of DVDs: Some have an interlaced format and some are transferred from film to DVD directly, thus have 25 progressive frames encoded. There are also DVDs designed for PAL and NTSC video systems playback in mind. Those selections are purely a decision of the DVD company. "

http://www.epanorama.net/links/videodvd.html