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Posted by Mik F on 01/27/06 10:32
Folks,
As a long time lurker (few lunchtimes are complete without a quick
visit to u.m.d and u.m.h-c,) I've noticed that there's a huge drop-off
in requests for region comparisons.
I was curious as to whether this was down to people googling for the
results or whether it was more to do with the studios 'wising up' and
releasing virtually identical discs worldwide in order to 'protect
their territorial markets' hem hem.
At the risk of reopening a can of worms, if price were the only real
differential between US R1 and UK R2 on any given disc, would you be
prepared to wait a week extra for delivery in order to save a quid or
two?
This is essentially the situation I'm facing with regard to a few films
and TV series I've been meaning to get for a while now, and the only
thing that keeps nagging at me is the old issue of NTSC vs PAL.
Putting aside the 'PAL speedup' and 'NTSC pulldown' arguments, I think
it's true to say that regardless of this NTSC and PAL differ in the
number of scan lines available in the vertical axis of the screen; NTSC
has 480, PAL has 576.
This would seem to suggest that PAL has more information / detail in a
'screen' than the equivalent NTSC frame, or is this just true for
broadcast images?
If the R2 PAL film has better resolution in this respect it would seem
to be a better bet but I suppose this might also be affected by the
overall compression / bit rate of the disc itself.
Thoughts and opinions?
Mik
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