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Here I am... let's say that today was "laserdisc extras capture day - 1"; I finished to capture both PAL and NTSC "From Star Wars to Jedi", and compared them briefly...

The conclusion is: the PAL french version has the advantage of really few and unobstrusive subtitles, while the NTSC has those big japanese subs always present. The bad news are that the video quality of the PAL is worst... bad colors, low brightness, low details, too much grain... it could be improved a bit, of course, but basically the NTSC is a lot better...

And, if only I will decide to use the PAL video, its framerate is not correct... I mean, to try to compare both PAL and NTSC, I had to change the NTSC framerate not to 25fps, but around 24fps!

So, maybe, it should be better to use only the NTSC japanese version, for the following reasons:

better overall video quality

has perfectly in-sync english soundtrack

framerate should be correct

using the japanese version, all extras will be NTSC only

will match the other three japanese subtitled documentaries

Opinions?

The framerate is not "incorrect", it's just a differently made NTSC > PAL transfer :-)

Would PAL VHS tapes help you in any way ? I bought the Executor box set only to find out that my VCR doesn't work anymore :-)