Beatles Anthology DVD - PAL or NTSC?

I previously bought Yellow Submarine R4 and find the PAL 4% speedup a bit annoying. Now I'm thinking of buying the Beatles Anthology 5 DVD set but I'm worried that buying the R4 PAL version will suffer the same speedup problem.

So, my question to R1 owners of the boxset - is it at the right speed? If so, I'll buy the R1 version.

I've tried internet searches on the running time for the boxset but get various numbers, most usually 'over 11 hours'.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

Welcome Peter!...Yes, it's the right speed.

 

For some reason "Ballad Of John And Yoko" appears painfully slow to me on the DVD set!

 

This has got me wondering - if some of the sources are PAL and others NTSC or 24 fps film, how do they get it right?

I know the major market is R1 - so I guess they (EMI/Apple/whoever) have made sure that at least the Anthology plays correctly in the biggest market.

 

Could it possibly be that "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" is an alternate slower version? In my experiences in searching the net, I've come across several reviews of PAL format DVD's (even of American movies) & a common factor of this format has been the fact that they're speeded up slightly. I don't think it's a format issue because I have two copies of "ABBA: The Definitive Collection". One of them is NTSC & the other is PAL. When I played them both in my computer, thay were the same speed.---Bill

 

This brings to mind a Paul McCartney 'live' concert film that I saw on TV about 10 years or so ago and the John Lennon "Imagine" album film video (not the documentary, the videos from the album) which I bought in the late 80s, both of which were about a semi-tone slow. It really ruined both films for me. Was the slowed down speed because both were originally PAL format or is it more likely just bad mastering? I did see the "Imagine" segment of the "Imagine" film another time at the proper speed.

 

It´s a very good questions. But, isn´t PAL supposed to have more lines than NTSC? So if the videos are shot in PAL and they transferred them to NTSC, the videos are losing quality?

 

It sure was strange to hear "Imagine" in the key of B. A lot of the songs in the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" film are also a semi-tone slow, which always bothered me. The "Imagine" album film that I had on video had been redone in stereo which could be where the mastering went awry. I believe there were some bird sounds at the end of the song "Imagine" on the original mono video (that I saw at the correct speed) that were no longer there on the slowed down stereo.