LOL — Mystery of the missing minutes: Why are TV shows shorter in New Zealand?  | The Spinoff: White Lotus S3E01 is one hour and one minute long on HBO Max. Here on Neon, it’s just 58 minutes. Severance also appears slightly severed: S2E01 is 50 minutes in the US, but a positively fleeting 48 minutes on AppleTV+ in Aotearoa. … "The duration difference is due to the differing frame rates between the US and the rest of the world,” they wrote. “It’s an accepted industry practice to slightly speed up playback to match local standards, which can result in shorter runtimes without losing any content." ... miraz.me

@Miraz hah, fun! When I was in 🇦🇺 my friends mocked my 🇺🇸 📺 format as “NTSC: Never Twice Same Color”. 😉

@Miraz Here in the UK films are shown one frame faster (25fps v 24fps) on broadcast TV which causes the same situation. Don’t think it happens with streamers here though as they rely on TVs being able to show whatever the original FPS is.

@aeryn I found it an interesting little tidbit. 😀

@ctwardy LOL

@MylesInTheNorth These are interesting little quirks, eh!

@Miraz That’s interesting. I would’ve thought all these frame-rate differences would be a thing of the past with the move to streaming and LCD TVs.

@lmika You’d think so, but I know nothing of such things…