Originally posted by: Grinder
If you're going for the best quality, don't even think about buying the NTSC DVD's. On top of that, the vertical resolution of LD is 480 for NTSC and 576 for PAL (same as DVD)
To the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been an anamorphic Laserdisc release - therefore the DVD release will have 1.33x the vertical resolution (360 DVD lines after letterboxing v. 270 Laserdisc, or 432 v. 324 for PAL).
If your destination is NTSC, you probably should stick with the NTSC release. You won't have to resize the video and you won't have to resample the audio.
it only differs horizontally.
If you're going for the best quality, don't even think about buying the NTSC DVD's. On top of that, the vertical resolution of LD is 480 for NTSC and 576 for PAL (same as DVD)
To the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been an anamorphic Laserdisc release - therefore the DVD release will have 1.33x the vertical resolution (360 DVD lines after letterboxing v. 270 Laserdisc, or 432 v. 324 for PAL).
If your destination is NTSC, you probably should stick with the NTSC release. You won't have to resize the video and you won't have to resample the audio.
it only differs horizontally.
LD being an analogue format (or is it a digitised representation of an analogue signal? I can never remember), it doesn't have a real horizontal resolution, as I was given to understand it. Of course, there is a limit to the amount of information per line, and it's not as good as DVD.
DE