Posted by One-Shot Scot on 12/17/05 14:57

"P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Biz wrote:
> || "Gary" <gary_w1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> || news:uql3q1hvmi2vb9u7ool405o43jpqdegg95@4ax.com...
> ||| I downloaded the movie and it played fine on my PC. It was an .avi
> ||| file, from the divx group.
> |||
> ||| I burned it onto a DVD using Nero Vision. The frames of the
> ||| resulting film, when shown on my DVD player, rolled downward.
> |||
> ||| I burned again, this time with the highly recommended DivxToDVD2.
> ||| Still rolling downwards.

> |||
> ||| Can anyone suggest what I could do to get a good burn of this film?
> ||| It's one of my all-time favorites.
> || You probably downloaded a PAL version...Being one of your all-time
> || favorites and you wont buy the DVD, now thats pretty lame...
>
> Especially since, AFAIK, the PAL version isn't the recent restored
> version, but is simply a reissue of the 60th Anniversary issue.....


I was sure glad to finally get rid of my PAL-based Korean DVD of _King Kong_
(1933). That 4% speed up in the audio throws everything off kilter. The
dialog sounds like a bunch of chipmunks jabbering and the music becomes a
burlesque of distortion.

I just checked eBay and couldn't find any of the once-numerous listings of
the Korean PAL-based NTSC versions of _King Kong_ (1933). Those Korean DVDs
were better than nothing, but now that Warner has finally released the real
thing in region 1, the PAL party is over. Finally, the 100-minute movie is
no longer crammed into a 96-minute time slot.

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