Originally posted by: Trooperman
I cannot stand PAL because the sound is sped up along with the video. This is a problem if you were born with something called "perfect pitch" like I was. It means that you automically identify pitch names. So I am immensely distracted by the Star Wars theme playing in B Major rather than B flat Major. It's not so much the voices, but every time a musical cue comes in, I'm busy noticing that it's not in the original key. I can't help it, and it throws the whole thing off for me.
That's very interesting. Myself: I'm completely tone-deaf. (Although, I used to be a DJ, and I have enough "pitch" to be able to identify a key clash in a mix. But usually only after I'd done it. I cannot stand PAL because the sound is sped up along with the video. This is a problem if you were born with something called "perfect pitch" like I was. It means that you automically identify pitch names. So I am immensely distracted by the Star Wars theme playing in B Major rather than B flat Major. It's not so much the voices, but every time a musical cue comes in, I'm busy noticing that it's not in the original key. I can't help it, and it throws the whole thing off for me.
).I there any noticeable loss in quality if you were to get the NTSC audio and do a "time-compress"; basically speeding it up without changing the pitch?
(What has this to do with letterboxed v. anamorphic? Why do threads on here go off topic so quickly?)