UK vs US DVD release
Hi fellas,
Wich is better? Any "differences"?
Responses will be appreciated
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DARN remakes!
USA Region One in AMERICA is ALWAYS best! No crummy sped-up PAL time acceleration as you have with the distroted audio of the inferior U.K. discs
shareActually, there's also the argument in many cases that UK discs are usually better where releases are equal in features, due to the higher video quality. (720x576 UK PAL as opposed to 720x486 US NTSC) So there's an argument to be made for better video quality over a usually imperceptible audio difference! ;-)
I get R1 & R2 DVDs, and it's often roughly 50/50 as to where you get the better releases.
However, in this case the R1 Invaders DVDs are clearly superior, simply on the grounds of having several extras, as opposed to the bare bones R2 releases. ;-)
Time enough for the earth in the grave!share
No, no PAL speed-up, Seaverstown. On the other hand, NTSC discs often have poorer image (lower specs) and suffer what's called the "3:2 pulldown" effect (from making 24 fps film work on a 30 fps NTSC display) -- so anything with camera panning, camera tracking or people moving is slightly juddery.
Both systems have drawbacks.
And PAL discs don't *always* have distorted audio; sometimes the distributors are willing to spend the money to get the audio tracks pitch-corrected, in which case the PAL version is usually preferable.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
with Blu Ray this is not a problem
shareSadly, it still is, at least with shows shot for TV broadcast. Both US and UK productions have to accommodate legacy systms that people use to watch TV -- UK shows are usually filmed at 25fps, so that they can be broadcast at 50Hz and people can still watch them on old PAL TVs, but US TVs overwhelmingly can't display images at 25/50Hz (I could say something about arrogant Americans expecting everything to only be done their way, but I won't), which causes a problem for this material.
So UK Blu-rays of UK TV shows are often encoded as 1080i/50, so that the material shows at its native 25fps, but for US versions of those Blu-rays they often have to slow the material down from 25fps to 24fps and then encode them at 1080p. So you get a speed-down by the same amount as PAL used to speed things up, this time dropping the npitch of speech and music downwards, but still not to a valid pitch. (Examples of this: the US blu-rays of the original House of Cards mini-sereis, the TV show Prime Suspect, Torchwood and Doctor Who.)
We're still not free of the problem.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.