A little forum update...We're planning an upgrade.

Find out more about what's planned and how you can help support the forum
Click here for the details

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJP" data-source="post: 359771" data-attributes="member: 5151">WB's DVD masters for NTSC and PAL markets were always different since they used Lorimar's existing prints for the different regions.Lorimar first created an NTSC master from the answer print, which was the first distribution print for the original airing on CBS.  Usually, WB used this print as the DVD masters in the DVD region 1 market.  There are a few exceptions when they didn't find that first distribution print or were simply negligent  —  in these cases, they used NTSC syndication prints, which were edited for syndication.For the PAL markets, Lorimar converted the first NTSC distribution print to PAL in a process called Telecine transfer.  The PAL distribution prints were always unedited since they came from unedited NTSC distribution prints.  Since Lorimar never edited PAL prints, WB's European and Australian DVD sets are usually the most complete ones  —  it simply wasn't possible to mix up the masters like in the NTSC case where both unedited first-airing prints and syndication prints still co-exist.  Just FYI, whenever an international TV station shortened the episodes, these edits were done by that TV station, but never by Lorimar / WB (unlike in the domestic U.S. market where Lorimar offered edited syndication prints).In the new HD transfers, in contrast, the same source material was used for both the NTSC and PAL versions.</blockquote>