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Posted by Brian Wescombe on 06/14/67 11:38
"Meng" <nospam@fnarg.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1138364825.16929.0@ersa.uk.clara.net...
> Mik F wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>
>
> Don't forget the good ol' BBFC. They may not be as bad as they used to be
> but they still snip stuff they shouldn't.
Such as new film 'Zathura' which has 36s of cuts for 'imitable technique',
the film could be passed uncut with a '15' rating.
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