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Originally Posted by ray4566
I may be guilty of over thinking this problem but I still cannot understand why DVDs from 2011 intended for the UK market would be outputting composite video at 60hz.
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It's hardly any more complicated than: Because they could get away with it!
UK and European 625-line/25 fps TV sets, by happy accident, can usually lock directly onto a 525/30 signal with minimal picture distortion. Certainly, almost every set with a SCART socket (DVD players have no RF output) would have been able to display a picture from such a disc. And if the programme is in mono anyway, there's no need to worry about colour signals. (But DVD is natively RGB; the colour signal is generated during playback, so it can be made to any standard to suit the TV.)
Since US TV sets tended to be strictly single-standard, it made more sense to encode the DVDs to suit them and let the rest of the world make use of its multi-standards abilities.