Originally posted by: zion
The "viewable area" you refer to relies solely on the capture device used. It is also dependent on the laserdisc source used - e.g. in some scenes, the PAL discs have a more tightly cropped viewable area.
Originally posted by: zion
The advantage of an anamorphic transfer relies solely on the screen you view it on. Widescreen TVs benefit the most, as the anamorphic widescreen format was designed with them in mind. Standard analog 4:3 televisions will actually lose quality when showing an anamorphic image, as lines are actually clipped to scale the image down to size.
There is more discussion of letterboxed vs. anamorphic HERE. The "viewable area" you refer to relies solely on the capture device used. It is also dependent on the laserdisc source used - e.g. in some scenes, the PAL discs have a more tightly cropped viewable area.
Originally posted by: zion
Both TR47/Cowclops transfers have the original PCM audio off the LDs.
I'd need to check, but I seem to recall that the TR47 set has PCM captured through analogue audio connections - therefore not a bit accurate copy of the original laserdisc PCM. Both TR47/Cowclops transfers have the original PCM audio off the LDs.
Originally posted by: zion
The advantage of an anamorphic transfer relies solely on the screen you view it on. Widescreen TVs benefit the most, as the anamorphic widescreen format was designed with them in mind. Standard analog 4:3 televisions will actually lose quality when showing an anamorphic image, as lines are actually clipped to scale the image down to size.