early color wanna be's

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Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966

I'd like to see the difference myself, although I do believe you are correct, but I just never saw a 625 line, 25 frames a second, PAL or SECAM color picture in my life so I would like to experience it. One of my buddies studied in France (of course they use SECAM) for a year at the University of Strasbourg and I asked him, "what the picture quality is like." He basically said the same as you, you do have a higher resolution with some flicker but he though colors were more or less the same. Then again, this is SECAM and he joked, "well, I didn't go to France to watch TV." I've heard stories where to synchronize films to European TV, sometimes they would run the films at 25 frames a second instead of 24 and to some ears, you can tell the difference with the slightly higher pitch in the soundtrack.

I don't know about NTSC tvs out there but now nearly any modern tv here in Europe is multisync/multisystem, I think for you to experience the difference you should use a CRT. LCDs have digital processing and interpolation before getting to the display so I believe you will hardly notice any difference at all (Besides my opinion is that LCDs suck for analog standard definition anyway). Try getting a tv that supports multisync and try getting a PAL source like a dvd player with PAL output, if you can't get a PAL dvd look for a PAL interlaced video on the internet and recompress to MPEG-2 with high settings and burn it on a dvd.

I have both systems here, I was in canada so I have an NTSC VCR hooked up to my tv that supports both systems, in my opinion NTSC VHS videotapes look much better than PAL even when recorded with EP speed compared to PAL's SP, maybe because NTSC has less banwidth the recording is more accurate compared to the original signal. But based on digital satellite reception PAL's live broadcatings look better to me then NTSC, colours are more vivid and resolution is much more detailed, both signals coming from the same receiver and with the same TV.

(Sorry for the long post, and sorry for getting a bit off topic)