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Started by COMMANDO FORCES, 18 September, 2012, 04:54:17 PM

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MR. ELIMINATOR

I really like that cover with the metallic grey font.

Stan

Quote from: JOE SOAP on 24 December, 2012, 06:16:05 PM


Dredd didn't even get released in France; looks like they're trying to make up for it.

Wonder is it a mistake that the DVD edition of the film reads as 3 minutes shorter.

Frig's sake. There's a lot of customers in France!

norse_sage

The discrepancy between the French DVD and the French Blu-ray is probably NOT a mistake.

What is more, there will be a similar discrepancy in running time between the Blu-ray and DVD releases of "Dredd" (and any other movie) in all other Mainland Europe contries, and the UK for that matter. If any European distributor puts the exact same running time on the Blu-ray and DVD release of the same movie, they are just being lazy because it's not correct.

There are no cuts mind you, the movie is exactly the same; there is a technical issue at play here:
The PAL speedup effect. Anything filmed in 24 fps will be sped up by 4 % when played back on any PAL based video system - including all European DVDs. Blu-ray's however aren't PAL, and so this speedup doesn't affect them.


JOE SOAP

Quote from: norse_sage on 02 January, 2013, 10:18:08 AM
The discrepancy between the French DVD and the French Blu-ray is probably NOT a mistake.

There are no cuts mind you, the movie is exactly the same; there is a technical issue at play here:
The PAL speedup effect. Anything filmed in 24 fps will be sped up by 4 % when played back on any PAL based video system - including all European DVDs. Blu-ray's however aren't PAL, and so this speedup doesn't affect them.

While the PAL effect would apply depending on the nature and fps of the DVD masters and where they're manufactured - the film was shot digitally in South Africa, a 50Hz country, so it would've been shot at 25fps with no need for cumbersome US 60Hz 24pull-down or dropping frames required in post. Post-production was all done in London so it would've been finished at 25fps too. Any other mastering would have presumably been done for each respective region and format from those masters but the PAL version shouldn't be any different from the blu-ray since the film master should be native 25fps unless the DVDs are being taken from DVD masters converted to 24fps for the US market.