Harry-N
Senior HTF Member
Jeff, we agree on way more issues and topics than we disagree on, and different viewpoints are a fact of life, so don't chalk me up as a forum "enemy" just yet! (I'm smiling as I write that, I hope you'll be smiling when you read it, as that's how it's intended). Forum posts sometimes don't convey the spirit of the message, just the bare words.
I respect your views and would never hope to offend you or anyone with my comments. My whole reason for chiming in here about the PAL issue is that I was genuinely curious if it was still a factor. It sounds like it is, and for me and others like me, that renders these R2 releases null and void. I worked in radio for 35 years, so audio, and especially speed and pitch issues are very important to me.
As I mentioned before, when TIME TUNNEL went into syndication in the '80s and every station was maxing out their commercial inventory, the episodes were time-sped. Everyone sounded like chipmunks to me, and even worse than PAL speed-up was the warbliness on the music track. I put up with those for years and now that the R1 sets are in the proper speed, I don't ever want to revisit that territory again.
And I surely appreciate those who cannot abide double-sided discs. They obviously cause great pains out there. Fortunately, I've never yet had a problem with a double-sided disc, but feel badly for those that do. And I feel badly for those in the PAL regions who don't KNOW that they've lived with a speed problem all of their lives, and now won't get to hear the true and proper dulcit tones of Richard Basehart in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, but rather a higher-pitched version of same. What did Seinfeld call them? - High-talkers?
Harry
I respect your views and would never hope to offend you or anyone with my comments. My whole reason for chiming in here about the PAL issue is that I was genuinely curious if it was still a factor. It sounds like it is, and for me and others like me, that renders these R2 releases null and void. I worked in radio for 35 years, so audio, and especially speed and pitch issues are very important to me.
As I mentioned before, when TIME TUNNEL went into syndication in the '80s and every station was maxing out their commercial inventory, the episodes were time-sped. Everyone sounded like chipmunks to me, and even worse than PAL speed-up was the warbliness on the music track. I put up with those for years and now that the R1 sets are in the proper speed, I don't ever want to revisit that territory again.
And I surely appreciate those who cannot abide double-sided discs. They obviously cause great pains out there. Fortunately, I've never yet had a problem with a double-sided disc, but feel badly for those that do. And I feel badly for those in the PAL regions who don't KNOW that they've lived with a speed problem all of their lives, and now won't get to hear the true and proper dulcit tones of Richard Basehart in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, but rather a higher-pitched version of same. What did Seinfeld call them? - High-talkers?
Harry