Page 1 of Picture quality...R1 or R2?

My question (since I`ve never watched a R1 dvd) is which has the better picture quality - R1 dvds or R2 dvds? If there is a difference, is it a big difference?

I think in theory R2 should be better quality as a PAL picture has a greater resolution than an NTSC one.

However, in practice there are other considerations to take on board like the time and effort taken over the transfer, etc. So a good R1 can be better than an average R2. The quality of your player and TV might also have a bearing on this - if it has a poor NTSC to PAL convertor your picture might appear to be worse.

The majority of my films are R1 and the quality is fine as far as I`m concerned. I find it difficult to tell the difference (but then I`ve never done a direct comparison of the R1 and R2 versions of the same film).

I`m no real techie so am willing (and waiting) to be put straight with the facts...

Also R1 films suffer from 3:2 pulldown which means you often see two frames interlaced together at the same time. PAL doesnt suffer from this.

Ok I am remembering some of my college work from a few years ago now so if I get the fine points wrong then don`t be surprised - this point isn`t 100% applicable to DVD but still relavent.

The video quality of NTSC (the TV system that Americains and some others use) is generally worse in which the way is stores colour information - in this country we use a format called PAL (specifically PAL I) - our TV system works out which colours are where and when by a having two analogue waveforms being not quite in phase (one wave is behind the other) - the difference in angle relates to which colur and how much of it (PAL stands for Phase Adjust Linerality I seem to remember) - because there are only two waveforms of information the green is derived by working out whats left from the other two - so that makes the picture when combined with other timing signals.

NTSC (can`t remmeber what it stands for but it`s nickname is Never The Same Colour twice) works out it`s colour but the voltage of the signal being more or less - hence why if anyone`s ever seen terrestrial NTSC broadcasts it sometimes has weird colours - obviously on DVD this isn`t much of a problem because the source is digital and doesn`t change - obviosuly though if your cabling isn`t 100% some of these losses could come back into effect - although to a low degree.

As I said before if anyone can correct any of this information then please do - I think I got most of it right though.