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creatine28:
Just bought a DC from EB games.  Didnt see much info on it, what all does the EB games deal inlcude?  Do I get 1 controller and the plugs needed to hook it up?

Level42:
OWwwwwwww nooooo !! You guys picked them all up before me :'(

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/195512.asp shows:

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Hope they get some more....

JB:

--- Quote from: Level42 on August 05, 2005, 12:57:32 pm ---
--- Quote ---You UK laddies get the 17% slower and squashed-screen 50Hz consoles like we do in Australia.  Blame our crappy power input and legacy hardware for that. :)

--- End quote ---

Uhm, crappy power ??
--- End quote ---
TV refresh rates were originally set by the AC frequency, due to interfence problems.
Hence, your CRAPPY 50Hz power means you get CRAPPY 50Hz TV that flickers.


--- Quote ---Actualy, the US and Japan guys have the legacy hardware, not the Europeans and Australians.....PAL is way superior over NTSC....

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Ummm... both standards are pathetically outdated legacy.
It doesn't really matter if PAL is from the 60s and NTSC is from the 50s, as both were designed for technology limitations that haven't existed for decades.

Your 38-year-old TV standard is why games run slow and everything flickers.



Though as far as a fair comparison goes...
NTSC has a massively superior color range(particularly in green, which the human eye is most sensitive to and NTSC has a full twice the range in), while PAL has somewhat better resolution and (if I recall)luma range.

Admittedly, the stabilzation of the chroma signal in PAL is nice, but it's only an issue for broadcast situations.


I personally don't watch enough TV to care about hue fluctuations in sub-par reception.


Were it not for the 50Hz refresh, I'd call the 2 systems equals.
As-is... I'll take the flicker-free 60Hz display that most video games were designed for and you can keep your resolution diffrence.

CJK:
Dreamcast = ReVolt!!!!

LOVE that game. Played it many, many nights in Iceland on deployment with the Navy...

-- Chris

Level42:
JB:

Not going into it too much (off topic) but: PAL and NTSC were both designed for broadcasting there was nothing else in those days, so chroma stabilization is the main feauture that made PAL superior for all the years it has been used....NTSC was not called Never The Same Color (twice) for nothing.....

I agree 60 Hz gives a little less flicker, but its not something the desingers chose to use, they too were bound by the mains frequency used in their home market, and that frequency was chosen long before TVs were invented.

O well, we've now all got 100HZ tv's (or LCD's) so the flicker is no problem anymore...and with all digital format abound...who cares :)

But I'm glad all arcade monitors use 60 Hz :)  Now on with the DC subjevt please  ;D

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