The speed difference is only 1/25th - it's so minor that the majority of people won't be able to detect it.

I'd be dubious of anyone who claimed it was so distracting that they couldn't live with it.


Well, be dubious if you like, but I have read about others also being sensitive to it as far as it taking them right out of the movie. And last night HOUSE OF DRACULA was really obvious to me, but we're talking about a movie I once had recorded on audiotape in the '70s and listened to for years. I also have the visual images and pacing embedded into my head. I do tend to be more keen on spotting irregularities in film than most, though. In the case of HOD, it may have bugged me enough not to run an order other R2 films of movies where there is already an option for R1.

I can't say yet whether or not this will ruin the enjoyment of all PAL releases for me overall, but for those of us who are purists about movies being replicated as intended, then technically we can say that movies were not intended to be run a tad sped up that way, either.  

Believe me, I don't mean to be a pain about this.  I've asked for your opinions and I do thank you for them. I do envy y'all and wish I didn't spot the problems myself either, or that if I did, I quickly got used to them.