Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker empirical evidence
same master ??
same master ??
hmm, the famous PAL burn marks they seem to be present in all the 1995 PAL 'THX'
releases.But if you look closely at those X0 (NTSC) frames you can actually see a small distortion at the exact same places as the burn marks in the PAL frames and maybe there's even a faint trace of the same(?) burns. It's even more easy to see if you step back and forth over the frames especially on the right wall if you step between frames 01:02:47:19-20.
Could this distortion be a temporal repair job? (well probably not by MBJ cause then there wouldn't be any trace at all
) but in 1993 maybe the DVNR filter 'accidently' fixed the frames for the NTSC releases. this is strange...Although there still is many other things that differ between the PAL and NTSC prints and/or mastertapes. And the 1995 PAL releases really do appear to be from a real PAL telecine.