Posted by Stan Brown on 10/20/05 21:16

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:12:15 -0400 from Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net>:
> 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.

"That's my story, and I'm sticking to it." :-)

Seriously, the two explanations I thought of were "typo" and
"rounding".

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