Originally posted by: LasermanIt's pretty obvious here that some of you know almost nothing about how laserdisc works, and are assuming that it is like CD or DVD which is not the case. You need to get away from the 'digital' mindset, that the data is just read of the LD as some info which is then simply output ot PAL or NTSC. I've never cracked a LD player open, and even if I had I wouldn't know what I was looking at. However, I've never had the 'digital' mindset; I've always thought of an LD player as the video equivalent of a record player, in that a vinyl record, like LD, contains uncompressed analogue information. That simplistic analogy has been sufficient for me up until now, but I was requesting for further clarification from yourself or Karyudo as to the nature of the signal stored on the disc.
Originally posted by: Laserman
This is not how laserdisc works. I don't mean to sound mean, but suggestions without any knowledge or research are mostly wasted as the reality is so complex that the chance of 'stumbling' across a solution is almost infinitely small. I'd suggest anyone wanting to contribute to the Franken-X0 discussion do some reading and research offline first. Well this thread was never intended to offer a real solution, it was based on my "dreaming of..." or "wouldn't it be good if...". I had no idea that such a project was actually in the running! But modifying an existing X0 player to play PAL disc goes beyond even what I thought would be the "ultimate" transfer.
Originally posted by: Laserman
Some background will probably be helpful here.
Yes, that info is helpful, thank you.
Originally posted by: Lasermand) Resolution. This is where it gets really interesting for us. In letterbox mode, NTSC discs have a vertical resolution of just 480 vs PAL 576 lins.
This may not seem a big deal, but when ou get down to letterbox, that leaves NTSC with a measly 272 lines of resolution! PAL by contrast has 327 available lines (obviously depending on the aspect ratio, but the above is pretty much what you get on Star Wars), so around 20% more. When the baseline is so low this can really make a difference - hence the interest in the PAL laserdiscs as a master.
On my PAL version of ANH it's 320 lines. On ESB and ROTJ, it's 324 lines.