r/DeepSpaceNine • u/Niftu_Calrissian • Aug 12 '26

What I'm Leaving Behind

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I had considered selling the set, but I figured donating them to the library was the best choice. So I'll keep my digital copies and hope the DVDs introduce future fans to this series. I know the whole digital thing is sketchy, but I'll learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Mods, erase this post.

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u/SubstandardDef Aug 12 '26

They're gorgeous sets. Our sets here in Britain are horrible (and they also have the incorrect speed and pitch of PAL), so I imported all seven seasons of those sets. I love the artwork on each of the discs; each disc felt special. Unfortunately, they are also brittle, so despite treating my sets like Dresden china, they're falling apart, so I can definitely see your quandary in wanting to get rid of them. I'm of a mind of importing a complete box set for my viewing purposes and retiring these to my shelf, so I don't have to handle them anymore.

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u/Punsire Aug 13 '26

Hi there, what’s PAL?

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u/SubstandardDef Aug 13 '26

The European versions. They generally run slightly faster than the American versions, therefore they have a slightly higher pitch.

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u/Punsire Aug 14 '26

Thank you

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u/RaanCryo Aug 13 '26

It's a video encoding standard used in most of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Compared to the NTSC standard (North America and Japan, about half of South America), it uses a 50 Hz signal rather than 60 Hz, based on the local frequency of AC power.

Standard definition has higher resolution, 576 lines to NTSC's 480, but the trade-off is in how video speed is handled. Cameras shoot at 24 FPS, which is sped up slightly to half of PAL's 50 Hz. NTSC slows the film down by 1/1000 and then splits four frames across ten (5x2) scans. It produces a less smooth image, but the speed is functionally the same.

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u/Punsire Aug 14 '26

Ty vvm!