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Originally posted by DanielB:
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Originally posted by Ian:
[qb] [QUOTE] Framerates? 24fps in the US and 25fps in the Europe?
Ian is spot on. 24p in Europe. The studios, even the European distributors like Studio Canal have - thankfully - sided with retaining 24p encodes for film-based content in European territories. Since 60hz HD support is mandatory in all European ‘HD Ready` sets, there`s no problem sticking with 24p and letting the players do 3:2 pulldown for 60hz output like in the US. Ok, so this adds some judder, but as someone who works with film off and on (and as someone who enjoys film scores), speedup is a conversion element I find to be of great frustration.
Video scalers like the Lumagen models can do perfect 2:2 pullup and remove this judder. All you need is a display device that accepts 48Hz.

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So if you want Harry Potter, Mark, buy with confidence.
Just to prove that I do have some discriminatory ability when it comes to movies, I will pass on this. The first two films were interminably dull and just like Michael Bay films, you only get stung so many times before saying enough is enough!

Another feather in HD-DVD's cap is it's lack of region coding. I already have La Haine from Europe and can play it on my US HD-DVD player and will happily buy a UK disc if it isn't censored compared to the US release.

Mark

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