dvd NTSC or PAL?

[steven allen]

What actually looks better on DVD
a pure Ntsc signal to a multi standard TV?
or a converted signal to make it pal compatible?
Does it make much difference ?
cheers
steve

[Jay]

On 5 Apr 1998 08:49:53 GMT, "steven allen" <steven...@virgin.net>
wrote:

Pure NTSC S-Video into a multi standard TV, by mile.

[Graham Lang]

> >What actually looks better on DVD
> >a pure Ntsc signal to a multi standard TV?
> >or a converted signal to make it pal compatible?
> >Does it make much difference ?
> >cheers
> >steve
>
> Pure NTSC S-Video into a multi standard TV, by mile.

Wrong!

DVD video is *not* stored as either PAL or NTSC, so requires no
"conversion" to be output as PAL.

On 99% of all Euro TV's a PAL output from a region 1 525/60 DVD will look
better than NTSC. The only reason you'd want a pure NTSC output from a
Euro DVD player is to interface to an NTSC only projector.

Graham.

[Espen Braathen]

steven allen <steven...@virgin.net> wrote in article
<01bd6070$250c2b00$443ea8c2@baggy>...

> What actually looks better on DVD
> a pure Ntsc signal to a multi standard TV?
> or a converted signal to make it pal compatible?
> Does it make much difference ?

It depends on your tv.

The video on DVD is stored as componenet video in the Y/R-Y/B-Y format
and can be encoded into both composite/s-video PAL and NTSC without the
"transcoding" associated with composite video stored on LaserDisc.

If you use a composite connection the higher color subcarrier for PAL
(4.43 Mhz) will allow higher resolution (especially if the tv does not
have a digital comb filter). In any case PAL modulation will give you
somewhat higher color bandwith compared to NTSC. A slight color shift
might be seen, but few tv's display technical correct colors any way, so
it should no be of major concern.

EspenB