watching Wild Green Yonder with a friend, me watching the movie on my Plex, them watching the version broken into episodes on Hulu.
i pulled Hulu up to make sure i stayed synced, and the Hulu version quickly pulled ahead of mine. i didn’t notice a missing scene but i wasn’t paying close attention to the Hulu version.
when Hulu auto-cycled to the next episode, even with outro and intro credits, it brought it back to sync with my version. we’re ⅓ through episode two, and Hulu is currently 14 seconds ahead, although we started this episode synced.
The ones broken up for televised airing like normal 23 minute long episodes is the main reason. They’d have a time difference from watching them on adult swim compared to the DVDs too. They cut some jokes out and inserted commercials. I really can’t even stand watching Bender’s Big Score in the episodic format, since much of the stuff I liked most was cut or shortened.
My math is rusty, but this sounds like their original source files were at a different framerate than whatever their streaming standard framerate is. E.g., a 25 fps PAL source, playing at a 30 (or 29.976) NTSC rate.
25 to 30 fps would absolutely be noticeable. NTSC to 30.0 maybe. If I did my math right that’s 7 minutes of difference across the entire movie.
That shouldn’t change the time of the movie. FPS = frames per second. The second part is still one second. It’s the number of frames you see in that one second that is different.
Its common, here’s an example with seinfeld apparently its to increase ad time lol. Also I guess a lot of companies now are assuming people are gonna put the show as background noise, not as if you’re actually paying attention
It’s for ad time. At some point, the TV industry realized though couldn’t get studios to make “30 minute” shows shorter then they already were (for ad breaks), so they artificially compress those show times to fit more seconds of ads in addition to the ad breaks they already had time for.
So say a studio releases a 20 minute episode of content for a 30-minute time block, distribution companies like Hulu will take that 10 minutes for ads, plus compress (by speeding up) the 20 minute episode, too. It wouldn’t even surprise me if they use an algorithm to determine which parts of the episode they can speed up more aggressively than others, to hide that impact from the viewer.
I get that for broadcast, but for streaming it doesn’t make any sense, it’s not like ad breaks on streaming used to be the same length as on cable. on top of that, I wasn’t getting ads when watching this on Hulu
Hulu is owned by broadcast networks, they could just be using the same media, pre-condensed.
That’s interesting. If you document more discrepancies please share. I could totally see Hulu or other platforms doing this type of thing to somehow get more favorable metrics - showing more ads maybe?
