Bjoern Roy looks at Lord of the Rings under a microscope!

[cybersoga]

http://www.videophile.info/Review/FOTR/FOTR_01.htm

very interesting if your concerned about picture quality.

BTW, The Two Towers R2 PAL EE has superb PQ on my screen! Bjoern says he'll have a review up soon.

[CLH]

Weird.

I had the R1 and R2 of FOTR and found the R1 generally more acceptable.

[cybersoga]

Perhaps your screen is such that it looks better with NTSC than PAL for whatever reason.

[Timmy B]

There really is no debating after Bjoern has reviewed a DVD.

[CLH]

Originally posted by cybersoga
Perhaps your screen is such that it looks better with NTSC than PAL for whatever reason.

Doin't think so. Standard 32: Sony WEGA.

Perhaps I don't have the level of detail to make the choice but IMO I still find the R1 more acceptable.

[cybersoga]

Fair enough - I think you'll find that if you used a resolution test pattern DVD, your screen probably wouldn't be able to display detail all the way upto 6.75mhz, so you probably wouldn't see a lot of difference between versions. This is only really of interest to people with HD & Progressive scan screens.

[Jeff]

This pretty much confirms what I see on my setup (9" CRT projector). The regular R1 version also has lip sync issues and over blown bass.