Post #118124

Author: Darth Editous
Parent topic: 3:2 on laserdisc question
Link to post in topic: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118124/action/topic#118124
Date created: 24-Jun-2005, 3:10 PM

It might be that when it was being "encoded" (as far as the word holds for Laserdisc), they made sure that any scene changes would only happen on a complete frame ("frames" in this sense usually start, I think, with the bottom field first). There's also the time compression issue - sometimes a percentage of the repeated fields are removed in order to fit the film on two sides.

If only you guys had gone with a 50Hz electrical supply...