Because they have no idea what they're doing and how what they're doing is affecting the image detrimentally. There is prevalent mindset that UK DVDs have to be PAL. 99% of authoring houses just automatically make PAL DVDs in Europe. The menu templates are all set up for PAL, everything's geared for PAL. So if they receive a native NTSC Digibeta master, which may have made a nice NTSC DVD, they'd do a cross-conversion (usually by dubbing from one tape (NTSC) to another (PAL) which ingrains all the interlacing in that new master now at source), and end up with a terrible disc. I've seen PAL Digi made by badly cross-converting an NTSC Digi broadcast on UK PAL TV!manicsounds wrote:That's why I never understood why some European companies used badly transferred NTSC to PAL discs. Why go that extra step to mess up the image?
Really, really glad to see the back of PAL / NTSC.