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Thank you everybody who contributed to my enlighment on the question of the art

of stating running times. Shoulda thought of that myself. Guess I have to blame

the metric system for that (it's living hell calculating film length in

meters/minutes).

 

Anyway here`s another one of those annoying trivia questions. Correct me if I'm

wrong, but i got it this way:

NTSC video runs at 24 fps, but are just using 400 lines on the TV.

PAL video runs at 25 fps (resulting in a running time 4% shorter than the 35 mm

edition) and uses 425 lines on the TV.

 

Why?

 

Has it got something to do with the difference between the US & the European

electricity system (60 hz compared to 50 hz?

 

Cheers,

 

Ulf

Ulf Dalquist                Phone:  +46 46 104266

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