Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
[quote]I imagine it's because hardware bought in the UK may be optimized or calibrated for playback of PAL material.[/quote]
Sorry, but that's not true and people shouldn't be passing around such information like it is (I've seen it on this forum before). I said it may be the case, and although there are many different factors to take into account, it will be true in some cases. (One example, if you own an LCD TV with 960x540 native resolution).
Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
Something that SHOULD affect someone's buying decision, and DOES actually exist, is NTSC's 3:2 Pulldown issue and PAL's 4% audio speedup (although I imagine nearly everything is pitch corrected these days), and they both come down to personal preference.
Pitch correction can cause digital stepping, so is only rarely applied to PAL releases (only when the director requests it). [quote]I imagine it's because hardware bought in the UK may be optimized or calibrated for playback of PAL material.[/quote]
Sorry, but that's not true and people shouldn't be passing around such information like it is (I've seen it on this forum before). I said it may be the case, and although there are many different factors to take into account, it will be true in some cases. (One example, if you own an LCD TV with 960x540 native resolution).
Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
In the US it's difficult to find a TV which handles PAL playback, or at least it was when I lived there a few years back. It was far from standard in the US, but in PAL terroritories it's a different story.
As long as a TV is specified to output NTSC or PAL, it will do, and it has nothing to do with its geographical location!
All modern PAL TVs handle a 'pure' NTSC signal, just like a US TV does. Plus, any decent DVD player should be able to output it, too. If you're using something like an XBox 360 then you're stuck using PAL-60 instead, but that's about it. Actually, after trying out six TVs bought in the UK within the past 5 years, only one will handle pure NTSC (i.e. NTSC 3.58). The others will only give a colour picture with NTSC 4.43 or PAL-60. Although, this is not normally an issue because RGB SCART is the most commonly used connection (the colour information is kept seperate and never sees a PAL or NTSC encoder).
Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
Sorry to sound harsh, I appreciate that your knowledge of Region 2 is probably limited, but trust me, there's no ambiguous "optimized or calibrated for playback of PAL material".
I live in the UK.In the US it's difficult to find a TV which handles PAL playback, or at least it was when I lived there a few years back. It was far from standard in the US, but in PAL terroritories it's a different story.
As long as a TV is specified to output NTSC or PAL, it will do, and it has nothing to do with its geographical location!
All modern PAL TVs handle a 'pure' NTSC signal, just like a US TV does. Plus, any decent DVD player should be able to output it, too. If you're using something like an XBox 360 then you're stuck using PAL-60 instead, but that's about it. Actually, after trying out six TVs bought in the UK within the past 5 years, only one will handle pure NTSC (i.e. NTSC 3.58). The others will only give a colour picture with NTSC 4.43 or PAL-60. Although, this is not normally an issue because RGB SCART is the most commonly used connection (the colour information is kept seperate and never sees a PAL or NTSC encoder). Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
Sorry to sound harsh, I appreciate that your knowledge of Region 2 is probably limited, but trust me, there's no ambiguous "optimized or calibrated for playback of PAL material".
Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
Something that SHOULD affect someone's buying decision, and DOES actually exist, is NTSC's 3:2 Pulldown issue and PAL's 4% audio speedup (although I imagine nearly everything is pitch corrected these days), and they both come down to personal preference.