Posted by Jeff Rife on 10/20/05 18:12

Stan Brown (the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:02:20 -0700 from One-Shot Scot <SonOf@Bitch.com>:
> > The most obvious effect of this 4% speedup is that the film runs for 4%
> > less time. Take as an example the recent movie The Mask of Zorro. The
> > theatrical running time for this movie was 136 minutes according to the
> > Internet Movie Database. The running time of this movie on Region 4 DVD is
> > 132 minutes, 4% less.
>
> 4% of 136 (or 132) is upwards of 5 minutes. 136-132 = 4 minutes.
>
> ??

Different rounding? If the movie is actually almost 137 minutes long, then
the 4% speedup version would be 131min31sec. If the NTSC version rounds
down (not unreasonable since the counter would never read "137") but the
PAL version rounds up, you would get 136min and 132min for the running
times.

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