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 took a second look and at first I randomly checked shots and thought that maybe my eyes were playing tricks on my when I was doing the captures but upon going through them shot by shot here are the shots where the NTSC version shows superior PQ to the PAL version. Now this is likely only visible on still shots and in a video sequence would likely never show up but non the less the NTSC screen captures do show better contrast levels, blacks and noise/grain levels compared to the PAL shots. Here are some specific areas where I could see the difference.

- Flesh tones in the face in shot 4.
- Leia's flesh tones in shot 7.
- Black level of uniform in shot 10.
- Blacks around the eyes in shot 12.
- Blues on the two droids in shot 13.
- The hologram, no other single screenshot from any release shows the scanlines that the PAL shot shows in shot 14.
- Noisy blacks on Vader in shot 18.
- Noisy blacks in the space between Tarkin and Vader in shot 23.
- Overall black and detail level as well as noise level around the lightsaber in shot 24.
- Black levels on the droid and noise on middle of 3 wall pilars on left hand side of shot 25.
- Noisy blacks in upper left of shot 27.
- Noise level on Chewie's left bicep (dark fur area) in shot 32.
- Noisy blacks in shot 33.
- Noisy blacks in shot 35.

I stand by my statement that the NTSC provides better PQ when compared to the PAL release screenshots.