Willow ,'Showtime'
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Jimi - Yes, I forgot about the defect in the first couple of S2 episodes. I'd be curious to know if that was fixed in the R1 version.
Shawn - I saw that show. They've broadcast that one several times over the last year. I knew about Theremin's bug work before that though (sorry I'm so smart!). There's an excellent biography available, written by one of the guys interviewed on the show. Here's the Amazon link. Highly recommended.
Well, I thought of you. Did you play the same song at the F2F as they kept showing Theremin playing? I can't remember, don't have the tape handy.
Did you play the same song at the F2F as they kept showing Theremin playing?
No, at the F2F, I played "Danny Boy", "Those Were the Days" and, or course, the Buffy stuff.
I have watched Buffy in both PAL and NTSC and haven't noticed any difference in voice pitch. PAL has the reputation of being generally of better quality than "Never The Same Color", and, let's face it, you're talking DVD - the quality is so good generally, the differences between a PAL and an NTSC disc are probably going to be indistinguishable to a normal eye.
AFAIK, the Buffy Region 1 and Region 2 editions are identical.
Edited to add: I forgot about the problems with the S2 discs. I assume they cleared that up for the NTSC edition.
This is what they did they did with the Buffy DVDs. I notice it mostly with the male voices, especially Xander, but others have told me they didn't notice it at all. I'm fairly sensitive to pitch (theremin playing and all) so maybe I'm unusual.
I noticed it, too, but I remember reading your post about it before my S2 set arrived, so I was expecting it. Don't know whether I would have if I hadn't known.
I noticed it, and thought there was something wrong with my DVD player's region-freedom.
I was relieved to find out it wasn't just me.
The real issue isn't the sound, it's the digitizing artifacts. bastards.
The common solution is to map them 1 to 1, which means the footage runs 4% faster.
You know when you really notice this? It's when you're in Australia, and you have a virtual video date with a Buffista in the USA, and you're both watching the same movie and snarking about it over the phone, but you keep having to stop and let them catch up.
All of the energy spent on pressing "play" at exactly the same time is kind of wasted, you see.
and you're both watching the same movie and snarking about it over the phone, but you keep having to stop and let them catch up.
I've heard of this in other international fandoms, but I always figured it was because the Americans themselves were slow.