Srce

is that a good thing? [/quote]

I don't know, I don't watch DVD's on my PC LOL.

Jeff20B

Well, NTSC is ok for old TVs that are running on household 110-120V AC at 60Hz. In the UK and other European countries, their AC is 50Hz, and their TVs run at 25fps on the PAL format. Regular USA TV signals are at 30fps interlaced. This works out fine, if the video camera is also running at 30fps (news and other TV shows). You can get 'digital' TVs that take both fields of the interlaced signal and show them together at the same time. It looks better this way in my opinion. There are some interesting differences which I won't go into here.



With movies shown on the big screen however, they all run at 24fps (unless it's an IMAX or other special interest type thing). As far as I know, DVDs can be encoded with pretty much any framerate. It's up to the hardware and software inside the DVD player to make it look good on whatever you're viewing it on. This means that component video and 90% of everything else out there will see that 24fps after it has been put through a processor which repeats every 5th or 7th frame to keep it running and looking smoothly on your TV.



The main difference with a PC monitor is that it can be changed to any framerate you want (that is supported by the monitor and video card). I also have a TV tuner video card in my PC which looks great and doesn't have the annoying 15.5kHz ring like regular TVs. Also, I can switch the monitor to 60Hz for TV watching, or 72Hz for DVD movie watching in just a couple seconds. Some DVDs have 30fps video on them, and 60Hz on the monitor is perfect.



If you've got higher end equipment, you could go up to 120Hz or whatever as a multiple of 30fps. Just to give you an idea.

SilverTurbo

The DVD has to be 1:65 Anamorphic, to fit all the widescreen without lines. The Fifth Element is like this and is pretty good on a widescreen TV. My Tosh Widescreen does the job nicely.