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Brandon Pierce
12-31-2001, 04:03 PM
http://abacus.sj.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_31a3200eb148f3eed2c4b45d5/i-1.JPG

I found this tape at EBay, and its description says that the cartoon are in PAL format. Which I believe is the format, that the time-compressed cartoons are in. One the tape, there's Broomstick Bunny, Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and What's Opra Doc? Interesting.
Joe Tully
12-31-2001, 04:29 PM
PAL is just the format used in the U.K. and the rest of Europe. I believe it's higher quality but same speed as the U.S. format, NTSC. I dunno why we went with NTSC instead of PAL.

Think of it as a region coding for your VCR. Unless you have proper equipment, your U.S. VCR will not play PAL tapes.
Brandon Pierce
12-31-2001, 05:29 PM
One person here mentioned that they informed CN that some of their cartoons are time-compressed. CN wern't awear of this. Yet, if you need certain equipment to run a UK print, and CN HAVE ran them before, this means they MUST have the equipment, and were fully awear of the UK prints.
Tintin
01-01-2002, 01:32 AM
On the french LT video shows, Speedy, Bugs & Friends and Tweety old videos, the cartoons are also time-compressed, but i believe where the France was very best for time-compressed and not the United States. Not you? :rolleyes:
J Lee
01-01-2002, 10:55 PM
The time-compressed cartoons may have come from a couple of different sources. The B&W versions that occassionally air of "Porky's Duck Hunt" and "You Ought To Be In Pictures," almost certainly come from the 1985 Golden Jubilee series of tapes, as does the near-Alvin and the Chipmunk speed version of "Dough for the Do-Do."

However, on that same tape, "Wearing of the Grin" is time-compressed, while the current version CN shows is not, and "Rabbit Fire" is not time-compressed on the same tape as "Porky's Duck Hunt" but the version CN shows is sped-up, so it may have come from a PAL formatted tape or from some other unknown source where it was time-compressed.
Matthew Hunter
01-01-2002, 11:49 PM
I will venture to say that Warners sent Cartoon Network these prints because they are 'marketable' titles, so if there is one in a show there is more room for commercials.
-Matthew