Different Versions?
I have a 107 run time on my copy of The Straight Story. The run time here is listed as 112 but I can find no information, even on different sites indicating another cut of the film.
shareThe reason is most likley that the 112 minutes copy of the movie is NTSC with ca 30 frames per second, and your version is the PAL version with 24 frames per second.
So its is not a different cut, is just that the version with 30 frames per second uses more time to show the movie:)
That makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't matter how many frames there are per second, its still PER SECOND. There are more frames, perhaps, but not more duration. Dipstick.
shareNTSC has a 4 % longer duartion than PAL due to the different decoding.
Why dont you search and find out your self "Dipstick", instead of being a faceless besserwisser on a forum?
You're right but the explanation you give is slightly wrong. NTSC plays a film at 30 frames per second (FPS) that contain 24 images (like cinema) and 6 other frames that contain extra-information. The NTSC resolution is a bit lower than in PAL, so these extra-frame fill-up the missing details.
PAL plays at 25 fps that are also 25 images per second, no extra-info contained.
That's the reason why music DVDs are only produced in NTSC format, because when transcoded into PAL the sound is slightly accelerated, thus preventing from labelling it high-fidelity.
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