Originally Posted by dBrowne
Originally Posted by Tassie Devil
However if the oroginal video is HD, DVD comes through rather nicely if upscaled by iScan with the note that PAL is superior to NTSC.

That is as likely as price to account for the greater uptake of BD stateside. The improvement is so much more marked from NTSC than from PAL, even on small sets. I think it would also be fair to say that the average US TV has been larger than that which could be comfortably accommodated in the average British rabbit hutch, so again, the comparative flaws of the pre-existing medium would be more readily evident. Greater improvement on larger televisions for less money.

Why is the improvement more? What technical differences are there between NTSC and PAL? All I am aware of is that PAL DVDs are often at the wrong speed, giving NTSC an advantage (as always detailed by DVDBeaver).


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