Originally posted by: zombie84
I'm sure the quality will be acceptably watchable for SD television owners. However, "Acceptable for SD" is not what DVD is designed for. Anyone with a widescreen set, an HD, LCD, Plasma or a DVD-ROM will quickly discover the poor quality of the transfer.

DVD's are SD. Plasma and LCD have fixed pixels, that means 720x480 fixed pixels in NTSC countries, and if they want to play back a PAL DVD, which is 720x576 ... they have to display it at 720x480. The same with NTSC in Pal countries, ntsc movies in 720x480 has to be displayed at 720x576 on Plasma or LCD.

DVD-ROM on the other hand, has to resize ANY video for display on a computer monitor regardless of if it's pal, ntsc, anamorphic or non-anamorphic - so assuming the source video is non-anamorphic... what makes you think an anamorphic conversion of it will look better on a PC?

Guys, I'd be very interested in seeing a comparison between the ntsc and pal video when the DVD is released, because *one* of the two will be resized from the source material, I wonder if PAL will have more picture information, ... or if it'll just be an up-scaled version...