Posted by Goro on 12/17/05 20:48

Justin wrote:
> Goro wrote on [17 Dec 2005 10:11:28 -0800]:
> >
> > 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
>
> Where does he mention it was NTSC?

well, first he says, "PAL-based" instead of "PAL" and then he says., "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)"

-goro-

> > retained the 4% speedup. I'm not sure why this would be, though.
>
> Seems odd, yes.

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