Posted by Roderick Stewart on 10/11/06 10:28

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:07:15 -0400, "Joshua Zyber"
<joshzyber@comcast.net> wrote:

>The fact is that PAL cannot play film-based theatrical movies without
>SPEEDING THEM UP 4%. That's a fact.

The frame rate of cinema films is not a "fault" of the PAL system,
simply an incompatibility, film being incompatible in various ways
with every television system that has ever been invented.

Any attempt to transfer material from one medium to another will
always be a compromise. When showing 24fps film on 25fps video,
matching the frame rates is only one of several possible compromises
that can be implemented in order to make it work. It may be the one
that is usually chosen, but that does not mean it is the only way it
can be done. Doing it in other ways would involve different
compromises, but the 4% speedup is not an inherent feature of the PAL
system, just the compromise that most people seem to find the least
annoying.

Rod.

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