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Posted by Brian Wescombe on 05/13/67 11:38
"Mik F" <mik.foggin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
I prefer PAL to NTSC - IMO the colour appears 'brighter' and clearer with
PAL, and no 3:2 pull-down. I will always go R1 for unrated/uncut versions of
films that are cut in the UK (saying that, many UK cut films are available
uncut in PAL format from mainland Europe or Australia). DTS is another
factor that would sway me towards R1. Price is rarely an issue these days as
most films are roughly the same price whichever version you get.
One other thing - some films have English subtitles/captions for non-English
sections of dialogue. Usually the R1 has subtitles 'burnt-in' to the film
itself (so it looks like it did at the cinema) but often the R2 has generic
player-generated ones which look crap and out-of-place. I always get R1 in
these cases (ie Lord Of The Rings trilogy).
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