Apologies, Moth3r! I had no idea you were in the UK, too. You sound like you know what you're talking about, which makes me wonder why you posted such an odd comment in the first place. I love your Screenshots page! It's an amazing peice of work and invaluable for SW trying to find the best PQ!

Originally posted by: Moth3r
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).

So in very rare cases, then?

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).

So, er, it isn't an issue...? All the TVs you tested outputted an NTSC perfectly... Still not seeing why THX should tell everyone to only buy DVDs that are made for their specific region or why you should back it up... Especially when DVDs aren't even really PAL or NTSC encoded in the first place!

Pitch correction can cause digital stepping, so is only rarely applied to PAL releases (only when the director requests it).

I presume that recent DVDs use soft-telecined 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 pulldown?