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Posted by kim on 09/10/06 19:32
"Rob" <rowens@earth.net.au> wrote in message
news:Xns983A7C6715AE7earthnetau@130.133.1.4...
> 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.
Probably to do with a lack of proper 2:3 pulldown removal.
(kim)
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