Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Whoa, that's just a tad overstated. PAL is quite good, and 576i, but not dramatically better than NTSC.
Yes it is. PAL is DRAMATICALLY better than NTSC.I have worked in commercial broadcasting since 1967, the year PAL went online.
I watched PAL TV in the UK in 1982 and 1984 on TV sets in people's homes, and keep in mind,
I'm not talking studio monitors here, I mean department store TV sets.As a matter of course, PAL TV sets in the U.K. display better looking pictures at home with a signal from an antenna, than I have ever seen in 40 years in a U.S. television studio on a studio monitor being fed
from a line signal.
Go somewhere that you can watch a program on a PAL TV set side by side with an HDTV set.Whereas HDTV is dramatically better.
There is some difference, but not a whole lot. HDTV is not, as you put it, dramatically better than 625 line PAL.
Bert
