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RE: In many cases you are right, but in many DVD are better than that.

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In Reply to: RE: In many cases you are right, but in many DVD are better than that. posted by Ole Lund Christensen on February 23, 2008 at 13:11:42

I own nearly 2000 DVDs, from Regions 1-4.

I have compared hundreds of Region 2 and 4 DVDs with their Region 1 counterparts. My reviews are posted on www.michaeldvd.com.au.

Apart from a few exceptions, my experience is that Region 1 NTSC DVDs tend to have superior audio and video quality, compared to Region 2/4 PAL DVDs.

There are a few other sites doing these comparisons. You will find on most of these sites, the reviews concur with my experience. Many include screenshots from the Region 1 and 2/4 discs and you can clearly see the difference (in many cases less macro-blocking, less mosquito noise, less HF filtering, often better colour/contrast for the NTSC transfers).

As for the 4% speedup, as I mentioned, this occurs on all transfers that originate from 24fps film. Yeah, there might be a few concerts and documentaries based on 50Hz sources, but these are very much in the minority. If most of your collection consist of these sources, well, good on you. Me, I prefer watching transfers from film.

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