Posted by Goro on 12/17/05 18:11

Justin wrote:
> One-Shot Scot wrote on [Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:57:44 -0800]:
> > "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:40g0arF19cusaU1@individual.net...
> >> 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.
>
> There was a Korean PAL version? Why wasn't it NTSC? Korea is an NTSC
> country, after all.

He said, "Korean PAL-BASED version", but mentions that it was an NTSC
disc. So i'd assume that it was a poor conversion from PAL->NTSC that
retained the 4% speedup. I'm not sure why this would be, though.

-goro-

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