Eg I used to watch some episodes of High School Kimengumi on a French channel and had the impression that those were the characters uniform colors. Because they had edited out one song in one episode, typical behaviour of French distributors at that time, I watched the Japanese episode side by side and noticed that the colors converted to PAL looked very different when compared to the original:  PAL viewers had it worse if you add that anime were first being exported from Japan to USA, video processed for American broadcasters and then processed further when exported again to PAL territories. All that time we were watching anime in the wrong colours. At least American cartoons had more careful conversion to PAL |
petran79 said: Why were American cartoons converted more carefully?At least American cartoons had more careful conversion to PAL |
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| Different broadcasting standards are a thing I definitely don't miss. |
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| Some french should correct me if I am wrong, but at the time they had SECAM, not PAL. At least their TV broadcasts were in it. Tho I have seen some french VHS cassettes which were in PAL...I guess they used both in home video distribution for compatibility (like people having players bought outside of France)? So in the case of anime they got the master in NTSC and converted it to SECAM and than yet to PAL. Transferring japanese master for the north american market should've being easier since both were NTSC...different versions of it, but still closer. Have seen weirder transfers in my country (not sure through which standards, but at the time we had SECAM, a different version from the french one), which had blue instead of red. |
alshuJul 29, 2023 4:36 PM
| I think France was the only western European country that had SECAM as did Eastern Europe and Russia .. Most of the world had PAL and Japan, USA were both usung NTSC |
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TheMechaManiac said: SECAM has always been known as a much worse color system, with color bleed being particularly frequent. Actually it had the best colours. The bleeding problems came from the fact that massively the colour technicians didn't do their job properly, also the lack of proper communication between different technical divisions in the national TVs (I have inside info about that, shooting the perfect source in studio than looking like ass when airing)...like typical socialist regime mismanagement on all levels. I have seen really great looking live SECAM broadcasts from Eastern Germany (also maybe Hungary) and not surprisingly from France. In comparison PAL looked...well kind of pale, but it had better brightness and contrast, which is arguably more important for analogue TV. NTSC is the trashiest of them all IMO. TheMechaManiac said: but it has the flaw of having to speed up sound by about 4% which changes the pitch shift somewhat. Not sure what you are talking about here. Sounds like one issue older VHS players had while playing NTSC cassettes for PAL systems. My SHARP player had this problem solved, but it was made in the 90s. |
| interesting. I only ever saw digitalized anime on tv somehow. at least to my knowledge. |
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