France has the advantage of upconverting from SECAM, which is quite a bit nicer than NTSC. I'm sure it looks great. Watching PAL and SECAM source on my HDTV look so much better than NTSC. Most PAL brodcasts in Europe are widescreen and they're 576 lines, where as NTSC is a mere 480, so when upconverting to 720 or 1080, you're don't have as far to go.
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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France has the advantage of upconverting from SECAM, which is quite a bit nicer than NTSC. I'm sure it looks great. Watching PAL and SECAM source on my HDTV look so much better than NTSC. Most PAL brodcasts in Europe are widescreen and they're 576 lines, where as NTSC is a mere 480, so when upconverting to 720 or 1080, you're don't have as far to go.