Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: Laserman
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Also, the PAL versions are framed differently, with the PAL version cropped, so missing some picture. That means what is on screen may look better as you have extra resolution and a tighter frame, but it also means you are missing some of the picture completely , which isn't a good thing. If you have a TV with a lot of overscan, then you are really missing out bigtime.

I think you may be overstating this issue. Decisions on framing were made by the telecine operators who did each transfer, just like if you saw the original films in the cinema, then the amount of picture you would have seen was based on the masking decisions made by the projectionist. "Missing out bigtime" would be comparable to the amount of image lost in watching a P&S transfer on a 4:3 TV!

I have to side with Moth3r on this point because it's really not as bad as Laserman is suggesting, I've been checking out my PAL capture right next to my Definitive Collection capture and it's not the whole film just a few scenes where the PAL version is cropped a little more tightly than the NTSC version, we certainly aren't talking P&S level of cropping.
When I've finished my trilogy transfer I was thinking about capping the Definitive Collection again and putting it together with my PAL capture on the same frame, worked out you can put both widescreen images on a 4:3 picture by scaling them to a width of 600 pixels - that way you can watch both versions of the film at the same time and compare the cropping.