Originally posted by: boris
That's not the point. Your original argument was to wonder why Laserman wouldn't take quality of equipment into consideration when talking about masters (like he did with LDs). The answer is because master tapes are digital -- that is, for a given digital master tape (cf. LD), the digital deck used to play it (cf. LD player) shouldn't make any difference at all (cf. analog LD where the design and build quality of the player has a direct effect on the quality of output).
You can believe that the PAL master tape is much better quality if you like. Either way is speculation, we don't know for certain.
Originally posted by: Karyudo
Uhh... the master tapes are digital. So what? Not all digital master tapes are equal.
Uhh... the master tapes are digital. So what? Not all digital master tapes are equal.
That's not the point. Your original argument was to wonder why Laserman wouldn't take quality of equipment into consideration when talking about masters (like he did with LDs). The answer is because master tapes are digital -- that is, for a given digital master tape (cf. LD), the digital deck used to play it (cf. LD player) shouldn't make any difference at all (cf. analog LD where the design and build quality of the player has a direct effect on the quality of output).
You can believe that the PAL master tape is much better quality if you like. Either way is speculation, we don't know for certain.
You post as if nobody has ever seen a mythical PAL LD from which to make comparisons. It's certainly clear that you have never seen a PAL LD, because anyone who has viewed a PAL copy of the same 1995 THX release can tell you that it is definitely different from the NTSC version. And it is better in most areas. You're right that it has its flaws -- most notably more dust and crap in the picture -- but it does have more resolution, more detail, and no ghosting.
By the way, this is not "speculation"; it is fact. Why don't you accept that? You expect everyone to buy your theory that the crawl on the GOUT discs is original based on a few frames with one spot of dust and a hair or video flaw, but you don't accept all of the posted evidence for the PAL LD release being different and better than NTSC? That's just being deliberately obtuse, and bordering on trolling.