George Romero's Martin, 95 minutes (Anchor Bay) vs 90 minutes (Arrow)

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Originally Posted by AllNight

I actually knew about the PAL thing, but for some reason I wasn't thinking it would add *that* much time, as I didn't do the math in my head (or on a calculator). It's been awhile since I handled a PAL disc and for some reason my line of thinking was surely a studio would speed correct their video to match the correct run time. But I guess speeding up the video and audio is pretty common handling for PAL for some reason. :P

I don't know of a single PAL release that was "speed corrected" from a 24 fps film source. Every PAL DVD I've ever encountered was converted to 25fps, and thus ran about 3 or 4% faster than normal. That's what's accounting for the speedier run time of the Martin discs in the UK and other PAL regions. This is obviously not an issue with blu-ray.