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Kari, the problem is not in the NTSC standard. The problem is in the crappy implementation providers use. The bottom line rules, and the bottom line says "compress the bejeezus out of it as long as it sort of ressembles the original so we can send two or three additional signals in the same bandwidth".
Now with HD, you get compression artifacts that are smaller . Hell, an upscaled well-mastered DVD sometimes looks better than the station / cable / satellite transmitted HD program.
For true HD, look to Blu-Ray, but that will only bring me to my pet peeve rant, which I may start a thread about ... and no, it's not about the format war, that's over and done and gone. And the image quality is great. No, it's about how can a bunch of multi-billion technological corporations can come up with such a moronic set of UI standards, if standard is indeed a concept that can be applied to it.
welllll, not completely. PAL is more likely to give an image in the correct colours. Since digital satellite went live the signal is compressed to ridiculous tidbits and still it comes out sort of ok.
btw:
Here's something not worth own thread but what I want to say. If I misunderstood the point of this thread, I sincerely ask the OP to tell it to me and I will delete this post.
In view of the identity of the OP sincerely asking him something doesn't get you anywhere.
I guess Dwarf found a way to converse sincerely with him though
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vivid ouch. If anything the colours are overfed. I have to set tv to cold, and put all 3 colours to about 35 out of 100
What bites is the compression,mpeg3/4. You can see the artifacts;
The image when not moving to much is ok, if not you get a bit like the cleartype effect. Bit fuzzy around the edges and fast moving objects tend to pixelblock a bit.
This explains some of the similarities (and differences) between NTSC and PAL encoding: NTSC vs PAL - Difference and Comparison - Diffen