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Post #311235

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Anti-Matter
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Help Wanted: PAL/NTSC hybrid transfer query
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22-Feb-2008, 6:50 PM
I see now that people are either confused, distracted or they are missing the question.

First, case #3 is not an example of zooming. It is the PAL image that has been cropped to fit within an NTSC frame. If we zoom the original NTSC image, we are not going to end up with a better picture.

Second, the reason people generally prefer a PAL DVD image over an NTSC DVD image is similar (both technically and conceptually) to why any of us would prefer a music track sampled at 44.1kHZ over one sampled at 22kHZ: it is called resolution.

The PAL (#1) and NTSC (#2) screenshots are depicting the SAME objects, but with DIFFERENT resolutions. The PAL DVD image always has the potential to deliver a more vivid picture because it always has ~434 lines (in the Cinescope case) to depict a visual event, whereas the NTSC DVD image must depict the same event using only 364 lines.

If you cannot see this in these particular examples, just ignore them. It's not terribly important, and I could have just used black on white cards to illustrate the same point.

The question I posed merely asks NTSC users whether maximizing detail on a 16:9 display is more important than preserving a Cinescope frame. You cannot have both.