Why do people care so much about PAL? Isn't the native resolution for movies made for the USA NTSC? I mean if it's not, than why is that the standard in America AND Japan? Japan is more technologically advanced than anyone, so I say whatever their standard is is also the definitive standard. The only reason I can understand why people prefer PAL is if that is what they are used to, or that's what their TV plays. I mean are you people THAT busy that you have to cut a few minutes of time from your movie watching out and watch a sped-up version of an American movie? I can understand if the movie was shot specially for PAL territories, but why would you want to sacrifice ANYTHING to watch a movie that was intended first and formost for the American market (like Star Wars), in a different resoultion? Yeah, supposedly PAL gives more picture information, a few freaking lines. Big whoop. I don't think it's worth the sped up crap. I posted something in the Laserdisc vs. DVD comparison thread, (which the title and first post said NOTHING about PAL or NTSC, so I assumed it would be about NTSC, since that is the standard for a US movie like SW)

"Why does ANYONE care about PAL? I mean these are AMERICAN movies. AMERICAN movies. AMERICAN movies are NTSC. Screw PAL and it's not-NTSC-ness."

Which was promptly deleted by someone other than me, but imortalized in someone's signature. I was really hoping to find an NTSC LD/ DVD comparison, and when all people in there seemed to care about was PAL, I got upset. Seriously, why all the fuss over PAL? Why did they even make multiple formats to start with?

Please don't delete this, I am being dead serious. I am honestly curious about this. All this complaining about not changing anything, etc, but you can't tell me that converting to PAL isn't some form of changing the movies. I know so is NTSC, but it's closer to the theater version than PAL is.