Mr. Worm~~
09-04-2005, 01:33 AM
I've been playing for a while with both systems, cause I can use any of both, I have an NTSC console and TV has built in NTSC(usa) and PAL-B(europe).
About the black bars at sides, in NTSC for 4:3 movies comes from that std aspect ratio for NTSC interlaced is 640*448 instead 640*480, so if you have any movie in 640*448 you can check in older versions that fits in full screen.
Using 640*480, the rectangle is something like 16:9 movies that you have black bars at top and bottom but in this case cause height is more than std, image was cropped at sides. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Making history first fix was expanding image in width for NTSC fix, but that crops a little other aspect ratios 16:9 and 20:9 for example, getting some kind of pan-zoom for those, so fix something but another thing has to be fixed. After all the solution comes and is posible to see 640*480 as 4:3= 1.333 instead 1.42 and 640*448 are seen in the same way. The result, no more black bars at sides. ;)
About resolution, NTSC is worse than PAL, that was ALWAYS...PAL has 625 lines and NTSC has 525, so that is system intrinsec. I can watch movies in better quality using PAL than NTSC, and I think there is nothing to be than about. Also with DVD same thing happens. :cry:
Due to that is possible to see horizontal lines more in NTSC than PAL, and are more noticeable in non-interlaced mode, and more as bigger is the TV set. :chinscrat
About the black bars at sides, in NTSC for 4:3 movies comes from that std aspect ratio for NTSC interlaced is 640*448 instead 640*480, so if you have any movie in 640*448 you can check in older versions that fits in full screen.
Using 640*480, the rectangle is something like 16:9 movies that you have black bars at top and bottom but in this case cause height is more than std, image was cropped at sides. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Making history first fix was expanding image in width for NTSC fix, but that crops a little other aspect ratios 16:9 and 20:9 for example, getting some kind of pan-zoom for those, so fix something but another thing has to be fixed. After all the solution comes and is posible to see 640*480 as 4:3= 1.333 instead 1.42 and 640*448 are seen in the same way. The result, no more black bars at sides. ;)
About resolution, NTSC is worse than PAL, that was ALWAYS...PAL has 625 lines and NTSC has 525, so that is system intrinsec. I can watch movies in better quality using PAL than NTSC, and I think there is nothing to be than about. Also with DVD same thing happens. :cry:
Due to that is possible to see horizontal lines more in NTSC than PAL, and are more noticeable in non-interlaced mode, and more as bigger is the TV set. :chinscrat