Post by r***@yahoo.comOK, I'm a dinosaur, but I just love film. It just seems more natural,
organic, whatever. I even love the sound of the projector, and when I
am watching a *film*, I just feel like I'm at a special event and not
in someone's basement watching a DVD.
I even like watching L&H on Super 8.
I'm with you. Film is special, more "real" somehow, and the mechanics of
showing film is somehow reverential to the specialness of film.
But DVD has given me access to more films than I could ever afford on
film. And with an HDTV, the picture is sharper than the average 16mm dupe,
even if the "depth" of a film image is lacking.
Post by r***@yahoo.comAnd no DVD should ever be screened with the sound and action speeded
up 4%! With L&H timing is everything...Stan would be appalled.
Current DVD players do a better job of converting PAL to NTSC than did the
mega-expensive pro equipment of just a few years ago. It simply must be
possible nowadays to slow the PAL video down to proper speed during
conversion, yet I don't know of any player that does this. I can only
suppose a couple of reasons for this:
Inability to market such a feature. After all, we in NTSC countries are
not *supposed* to be playing PAL discs. They're not made for our "region"
y'know. People in PAL countries constantly say the PAL speedup never
bothers them (I don't know how they can stand the audio difference,
though).
Fear of consumer confusion. Movies need to be slowed down, TV shows do
not. I don't think the switching could be done automatically in the
player.
It was less than 10 years ago that I spend a few hundred dollars to have
equipment that could play PAL VHS tapes on my NTSC TV. The results were
acceptable, but just barely. Now, you can get far greater conversion
quality from a $30 DVD player. I'll watch L&H on PAL DVDs because they're
just not available in NTSC. But I hope it's not too unreasonable to keep
hoping for digital speed correction in a future generation of players.
(That seems more likely than a proper NTSC release of L&H.)