Posted by fwibbler on 12/11/06 14:49

Stroller <stroller@bigfoot.com> wrote:


> Now, I haven't done much DVD shopping in a while, but it used to be that
> there were significant differences between US & UK releases. Not in this
> case - from looking at dvdcompare.net it seems there's no difference in
> the extras or transfers between the regions, so my only question is
> whether there's any difference in image quality between NTSC and PAL?
>
> In another thread the aptirrelevance.com site [2] was mentioned, which
> shows comparisons between different Star Wars releases - to me the NTSC
> screenshots of the "GOUT" versions look slghtly crisper and sharper. Is
> this the general consensus of opinion, or am I just imagining it?
>
> The aspect ratio seems slightly different between the GOUT NTSC & GOUT PAL
> screenshots - presumably this is caused by scanline differences between
> the formats & isn't visible when viewing.
>
Assuming it was this set (and not some other DVD I was watching recently, it
seemed to me (because I'm a picky sod and tend to notice these things) that
the PAL version is a just a simple conversion of the NTSC version, thus it
doesn't benefit from the extra detail and clarity that the PAL format is
capable of (576 lines compared to 480 lines NTSC) (in fact, it does indeed
lose a tiny bit of detail in the conversion as you have noticed).

That said, I'd still prefer the PAL format version as it doesn't have the
horrible motion judder of the NTSC format.

However, since Lucasfilm can't be arsed to do a propper job for PAL format
viewers, I can't be arsed to buy them.

Just my thoughts.
Cheers!

--
Graham
Website - http://www.thedeathzone.free-online.co.uk

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