6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
1:10 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Parenthetically, through this exercise I did realize
how much better
PAL was than NTSC. The color balance was always excellent from the
tapes, particularly as compared to the way off-the-air NTSC looks.
Yes, but the flickering (50Hz) is annoying if you haven't been nursed on
NTSC (60Hz). It took me months of viewing PAL (I was mastering a PAL
DVD) before I got used to it.
Resolution and color are indeed better than NTSC.
A favorite game of mine was to walk into one of the
big box
electronics stores such as Circuit City and say to the guy flogging
big-screen sets from an acre of glowing boxes, "They all look
different. Which one has the correct colors?"
None of them. Seriously. One of the dirty little secrets of that
industry is that the "default" or "standard" settings for
color/tint/brightness/contrast/sharpness is that they are calibrated for
the store show room, NOT a regular home setting. All the colors are
oversaturated, the sharpness is artificially high, etc. Every friend I
know who purchases a new TV find me knocking on their door a few days
later with my Digital Video Essentials calibration DVD.
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