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Posted by Rob on 09/10/06 16:10
The Thing wrote on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:43:54 GMT:
> Now forgive me if this sounds dense, cos it's sounds perfectly
> plausible in my mind....
>
> Now the NTSC standard is 400 odd lines....
>
> While the PAL standard is 500 odd lines....
>
> Does it then follow that a PAL disc run through an upscaler would look
> better as there is more information for the upscaler to upscale?????
>
> Does that make sense?
Yes it does. Don't forget that PAL also have wider colour gamut and
extended black levels that are more compatible with HDTV that NTSC are.
I have Philips DVP-5960 multiregion player (Panasonic DVD-S99 soon!!!) set
to upscale to display native resolution of 1080i and connected via HDMI to
Toshiba 34HF85 HDTV. I also have and compared the following titles:
a) US R1 LOTR:Two Towers (Extended Edition)
b) UK R2 LOTR: Return of the King (Extended Edition)
Based on extended PQ comparison of these titles over the past few months,
I've concluded that either TT is either seriously defective or that the
NTSC standard is at fault here. TT PQ seem shite, whilst ROTK PQ seem like
looking through a window at events outside.
I'm seriously considering replacing TT with UK release.
--
Rob
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