So the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie was finally released on DVD in the US this past Tuesday.

The problem is, instead of using the NTSC master, they used the PAL master and converted it to NTSC using the same method they use for all the other Doctor Who releases.

This means that the pitch and running time of the PAL version are preserved. This is fine for any other Doctor Who, all of which is shot in PAL format.

However, the 1996 TV movie was a US/UK co-production, and was shot on film at 24fps. Because of this, the PAL version is subject to the same 4% speedup that plagues NTSC-to-PAL conversions.

So, the idea is to convert the TV movie into proper NTSC format, with the accompanying 4% slowdown, bringing it back to its original speed.

Now, my problem is this - can this be done at good quality using the NTSC disc, which has the weird pulldown-from-PAL-or-whatever-it-is applied, or would it be smarter to get the PAL DVD, and work from that?

If that's the case, I need a DVD-9 of the Region 2 "Movie" DVD, preferably from the Revisitations 1 box set (as that's the version that was released in R1). I can only find highly-compressed DVD-5's of this online.

But if it can be done at good quality with the NTSC DVD, how would I go about doing that?