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Can I have some comments on what is best NTSC or PAL?

I am not convinced with NTSC. I have a region 1 Aliens, but I think it looked better on the region 2 disk (PAL).

Hasn`t NTSC got less lines?

I am using a AIWA 370 on a UK TV obviously.

Its OK to say that R1 disks often have more extras, but I want the best picture.

Been covered a lot this one - and it always gets lots of conflicting answers.
If your TV handles NTSC well (Some don`t - even new ones which claim to do!), you shouldn`t notice much difference, certainly not on anamorphic discs.
You are right, NTSC has fewer lines so in theory a PAL picture should be better. It`s not that simple though - another consideration is how the disc was authored. A R1 release can look much better than a PAL R2 if produced differently and vice-versa. There`s no easy answer really.
Hope this is useful.

You have to remember that R1 studios have more money to spend on mastering their dvds due to the much larger market. With the europe market the studios first thought seems to be how can they limit the number of different versions of disks for the whole of Europe and Austrailia this normally means more language tracks and cut backs on other things (BTW: Universal used to make one release that was used for all R2 Europe and R4 Austrialia, this tended to mean that europe got BBFC cut versions of their films, such as Dragon the bruce lee story)
Also most US discs have the higher bitrate DD tracks whereas Europe tends to get the lower bitrate DD tracks


I have compared Alien (not Aliens) R1 and R2 on my setup and the difference between them is minimal.