American vs. English?

Question

Not saying this to start a debate or anything....

have you noticed that when you watch something in the US, the picture is clear? And when you watch something that was filmed in England, the picture is kinda fuzzy or foggy?

Is it the same way over in England? Are we fuzzy? ;-)

Answer 1

The difference is in broadcast standards--video here isn't the same as video there.

Here, our video signal (called "NTSC") consists of 60 interlaced fields (30 frames) a second at 525 lines of resolution (including some lines we don't see that contain other information, like data for closed captioning). In the UK, the video signal (called "PAL") is 50 interlaced fields (25 frames) a second at 625 lines of resolution--technically sharper, but not as smooth in movement. Most of the different countries in the world use one broadcast standard or another--North America, Japan and Korea, among others, use NTSC, while most of Europe and a great deal of other countries use PAL.

So in short, whenever video from the UK is imported for broadcast in America (or vice versa), the signal has to be processed electronically to make it work in the new broadcast standard. But since that calls for changing the number of lines of resolution and the number of frames per second, something funky happens and the video doesn't wind up looking "right." It may well be, though, that NTSC translates to PAL better than PAL translates to NTSC (or vice-versa).

With the advent of digital high-resolution video, however, I think things are going to evolve to a point where everything will eventually be standardized.

Answer 2

I guess our stuff would look fuzzy in England!

Answer 3

no..we are not...i think it is because it is filmed in a different country and we usually are out at sea ooff of eaglkand when movies are filmed....i think it is just there crazy weather

Answer 4

i dont know

Answer 5

dont know!