Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 09/21/07 14:17

none@given.now (Joe) wrote:

>A lot of programs are being sped up, probably to free up more time for
>commercials.
>
>It looks roughly like a 10% or more speed up.
>
>This speed up was even on a movie *DVD* that I checked out from the library.
>
>What is this process called? I haven't seen or heard anything about it,
>except with my own TV viewing.

It's called time compression.

Some of the movie channels will tell you that they've done it, in a
disclaimer at the beginning of the movie. TVLand seems to do it to
everything they show.

They can get an extra minute of commercials into a half-hour show with
just a 4% speedup, the same amount applied to all films for broadcast in
PAL countries, and the PAL folks will tell you no one ever notices. Right.

There is no reason to do this to a DVD, but I've also seen chopped-up
syndicated versions of TV shows make it to DVD, so it depends on the DVD
maker and how diligent they are in getting the proper materials.

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