William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Aug 2009, at 22:14, David Hobby wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
...
NTSC vs. PAL: Not a fair criticism. That mess was created a LONG
time ago, and was also a problem with VHS tapes. (A bigger problem,
since the players were analog.)
Even with HD the frame rate (50Hz/60hz) is still different between NTSC
and PAL. (NTSC and PAL have nothing to do with HD being analog formats
but the 50/60 Hz is the same so the labels have stuck). My home theatre
DVD upscaling DVD player autoconverts these depending whether I have the
output set to NTSC or PAL. Since my TV can sync at either 50Hz or 60Hz
HD I have to change this setting to watch PAL/NTSC DVDs in "native"
format and avoid conversion which is a lossy process.
The others you list: It's still possible to just go with the defaults
there.
If the default is stereo I lose the benefit of my 800W 5.1 speaker
system :) And if there is a Dolby and a DTS soundtrack I have to
manually select the (better) DTS soundtrack.
...
William--
The above seem to be minor tweaks to get the best
output? The original complaint was about DVD vs VHS,
so we might have wandered from the topic...
---David
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