Originally posted by: Zion
I don't know, looking at them side by side, it's hard to tell a difference. Where are you looking specifically?
I have to agree, with just a very gentle unsharp mask you can restore the crispness in the PAL version, after that any difference disappears. The more I look at it, the more impressed I am at their resize algorithm.I don't know, looking at them side by side, it's hard to tell a difference. Where are you looking specifically?
Moth3r, that's an isolated incident. I've checked other screenshots against yours, and your one contains significantly less detail. In fact, in many respects a lot of yours looks to be converted from NTSC resolution, rather then PAL resolution... which makes me wonder if the French PAL LD's were in fact mastered entirely from PAL Master-Tapes... or if only parts were mastered at PAL resolution. The Greedo scene is the only other frame where I can honestly say yours has more detail - from the one's I've checked (which isn't all of them)... we know that's a subtitled scene. So what if France simply sourced that scene, because it was subtitled, and the final scene... since that will be subtitled too from a PAL source, and the rest - or most of the rest was from an NTSC resolution source? I know it still doesn't explain the framing or the scratches... but it doesn't appear to have an edge on vertical detail in most shots... in fact, in most shots the GOUT disc does.
BTW, here's an interesting one:
What happened to the horizontal scanlines in the hologram for NTSC?