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RD
rdd Founding member
I remember visiting Bavaria in the 1990s and having access to Austrian TV. At that point ORF played out no closing credits for any imported programming. Just the same short sting with short production information. Whether they still do that these days I don't know.
NG
noggin Founding member
Credit speed-ups are normally pretty easy to spot on TV, as the 25p motion goes to 50i.
WH
whoiam989
Ah, I always wondered how the broadcasters worldwide are dealing with such credits.

Here in South Korea, most of broadcasters finish the films in the middle of the closing credits at normal speed. But there are some exceptions. Catch On, the only premium film channels in South Korea, shows the credits in full. And I remember when South Korea's educational broaster EBS was showing an Israeli documentary about the LGBT-issues, the full credits were shown complete with production logos.

When the South Korean version of AXN channel was transmitted from Sony Pictures TV's Asian HQ, it used to show credits in full. (It doesn't since the transmission moved to Seoul.) Similarly, Sundance Channel Asia (which is available here) also shows the full closing credits.

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VM
VMPhil
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe ITV also always modify films so that they fill the screen, usually by cropping, but in the case of Skyfall a few years back using the IMAX version which is unmatted and so has a lot of extra space on the top and bottom of the screen. (Compare it against your DVD/BD when ITV show it next)

So only is it after I post this that I find out that ITV are (apparently) slowly but surely replacing their 16:9 cropped/open matte versions of the Bond films with original aspect ratio versions. Not sure if they're doing this with all of their films but it's a start.

At least I can still say for certain that ITV doesn't broadcast Dolby Digital!

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