Originally posted by: ApolloOne
Ah, my apologies. I inferred from your original post that the quality was much worse than you actually say it is now, so I was thinking in terms of PAL-60 possibly contributing to the issue. Sounds like you have an ideal setup (I wish our TVs and players were as flexible as ones in the UK). That being said, 16x9 TV zooms I've watched have been excellent, results which seem to differ from those of your experience. As for the reason...who can really say? <shrug>
Ah, my apologies. I inferred from your original post that the quality was much worse than you actually say it is now, so I was thinking in terms of PAL-60 possibly contributing to the issue. Sounds like you have an ideal setup (I wish our TVs and players were as flexible as ones in the UK). That being said, 16x9 TV zooms I've watched have been excellent, results which seem to differ from those of your experience. As for the reason...who can really say? <shrug>
To be honest the zoom probably isn't THAT bad, (objectively speaking) maybe I'm just spoiled by the crispness I get from anamorphic? I really do see quite a difference in picture quality. It might be related to the way RGB signals work vs the connection you guys use. I assume the majority of folks in the US use SVHS? Or has component taken off properly? My DVD player is REALLY optimised for RGB, and looks awful by comparison is I use SVHS. A friend of mine has an imported panasonic from the US, which she uses to play her Region 1 NTSC stuff. That looks great with SVHS, but does not support RGB at all. But non-anamorphic stuff (like EditDroid) still looks ropey to me on her rig. Or at least, not as good.
But then I can taste thing like if milk has been stored in plastic, glass or cardboard containers. So I'm probably just uberpicky
