Posted by Joshua Zyber on 10/11/06 11:51

"Jukka Aho" <jukka.aho@iki.fi> wrote in message
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>> The fact is that PAL cannot play film-based theatrical movies without
>> SPEEDING THEM UP 4%. That's a fact.
>>
>> PAL is an *incremental* improvement in resolution, chroma, and
>> bandwidth, at the expense of having to watch your movies with the
>> actors speaking in chipmunk voices.
>
> 1) 4% speedup is only a little under a semitone.
>
> 2) It has been technically possible to time-compress audio without
> shifting the pitch for quite a long time now.

I own many PAL DVDs, and even the ones that have been "pitch corrected"
sound nothing like the original audio.

> 3) To my European eyes, 3:2 pulldown is irritating and makes the
> motion... odd.

As irritating as you find 3:2 pulldown, that's how irritating PAL
speedup is to people who've been raised watching NTSC.

Furthermore, in my experience people watching NTSC content on a European
television, even one supposedly compatible with NTSC, are not getting
the best results from the format. 3:2 pulldown artifacts are exaggerated
on them. Watching on a true NTSC television will give you better
results. If implemented properly, 3:2 pulldown is hardly more
objectionable than the inherent judder you'll get in any 24fps material
in the first place.

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