I was just watching a local PBS station WLIW, ch 21 in Long Island, NY, and they had a back to back series of shows on the World Cup and the development of soccer around the world. The title is "European Soccer" but it really was world soccer. It was excellent. http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/whatson/template.cgir?s=WLIW&t=3&p=19363&c=d&d=2003-01-26 Hopefully it will appear on other PBS stations. It is well worth watching and taping.
I'd love to know if it comes on again around here. I only caught the last few minutes and thought what I saw was worth trying to track it down. Haven't found out if they'll be showing it again however.
What they're airing is the 12 hour documentary series, "The History of Football" It covers foortball worldwide, not just in Europe. It is narrated by Terrence Stamp. I have it on DVD (PAL only) and it's brilliant. check it out at - www.historyoffootball.com Nick www.worldsoccerweekly.com
The whole series aired nationally in canada on the CBC during the Wolrd Cup. it was truely an amazing series, i was suprised that CBC aired it, and also suprise by how much promotion they they had for it
Yes, Unfortunately, PAL is a different scan rate for tv's and is used in many countries outside the US (which uses NTSC). You'll need a region free player that coverts PAL/NTSC signal. Try www.dvdcity.com Nick www.worldsoccerweekly.com
Nick, thanks for the info! For technical purposes, NYSC scans at 60 lines on a TV, PAL is only 50. Because of the way the different systems work, they can't be used in one or another. Nick is correct that there are DVD units that can use both however, so you would have to get one of those.
Re: Re: PBS and History of European Football I have the set. It won't play on my DVD player so I hook up my laptop to the TV and watch it. A little inconvenient but works fine for me. I got mine from Amazon.co.uk. Well worth $75 or whatever I paid to get it.
Okay. Several things. When it was one on my local PBS station, they only showed six hours. The shows were about the Globalization of the sport, European history and another one about the best players. Anyway, it was great. I would love to get more of it. Also I have a question. I stupidly bought a DVD player for $55 and I thought it was a dual region thing but it turns out to be able to play on PAL TVS as well as NTSC like that ever comes up. Anyway, instead of getting a dual. My computer is DVD playable. How does one know that a different region DVD will play on the computer?
It's a Region 0 DVD, so it should play on any computer with a DVD drive. This is the set I got: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...19183/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/026-7791889-4016456 It's listed at 79.99 pounds, but it showed up on my bill as considerably less than that, though I don't remember the exact amount as I got it way back in June. You get 6 discs (which you can purchase separately, if you so choose) with two chapters each except for the last disc, which are: 1. Origins & Football Cultures 2. Brazil & South American Superpowers 3. Evloution & European Superpowers 4. For Club And Country & The Dark Side 5. Superstars & The Media 6. Africa, A Game For All & Futures
Region 0? Does that mean it can be played on any DVD around the world. That's cool but surely they are not a lot of Region 0 DVDs out there. Anyway, could I play a Region 1 or 2 or on my computer then. I think I saw 1,3,4 and 6. I'm not sure about 4 or 5. I mean the section about Maradona could be in 4 or even 5. But I saw him and they talked about Pele. I suppose 6 is the one where they talk about the game in Asia especially China at the beginning.