Originally posted by: Anti-Matter
... the PAL DVD is stored natively as 720x576 pixels. During playback, this information is stretched horizontally to 1024x576 resolution... This is only true in very specific cases - when you're viewing the DVD on a PC, using a media player in non-full-screen mode, using a basic AR calc instead of correcting for ITU-R, your desktop is set to a resolution with square pixels...
It's better to just say "the image is scaled to suit your display".
However, it has been shown elsewhere that the NTSC DVDs suffer from more prominent edge-enhancement artifacts, and this is another reason to favor the PAL footage in your Star Wars project.
This is the case with TPM (see this R1 vs R2 comparison) but I thought AoTC and RoTS were much improved. ... the PAL DVD is stored natively as 720x576 pixels. During playback, this information is stretched horizontally to 1024x576 resolution... This is only true in very specific cases - when you're viewing the DVD on a PC, using a media player in non-full-screen mode, using a basic AR calc instead of correcting for ITU-R, your desktop is set to a resolution with square pixels...
It's better to just say "the image is scaled to suit your display".
There is considerably more vertical detail in the PAL version...
Screenshots - or it didn't happen! However, it has been shown elsewhere that the NTSC DVDs suffer from more prominent edge-enhancement artifacts, and this is another reason to favor the PAL footage in your Star Wars project.