Talk:Wizard People, Dear Readers

Did Warners really block the presentations?

Because the sources don't actually say they did. The closest I've found is that three presentations were blocked at the discretion of the individual theatre.Serendi^podous 09:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Changed Star Wars reference

It originally stated that Professor Flitwick's name of "Professor Ugnaught" was a reference to the Ugnaughts in The Empire Strikes Back, one of which was played by Warwick Davis. He was actually known for playing Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi and the Ewok films. Jack Purvis is the actor who is known to have played the chief Ugnaught.

Striderdemme (talk) 06:35, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

PAL difference?

How does the PAL version of the movie become unsynchronized with the audio track? Changing the framerate changes only the "resolution" of the video. I.e. if there was some other standard that was 48 FPS, it would have double the resolution of NTSC but the movements of the people on the screen would not slow down by half.... --67.186.56.233 (talk) 19:13, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Film is usually shot at 24 frames per second. It is transferred to video using the telecine process, in which each frame of film is "photographed" with a video camera. NTSC video has almost 30 frames per second (actually 29.97 fps), so the NTSC telecine process uses the 2:3 pulldown technique: every 4 frames of film are "spread out" over 5 frames of NTSC video, so the video version of the movie still plays at almost exactly the right speed (24 fps × (5 ÷ 4) = 30 fps). However, PAL video has 25 frames per second, which is already very close to film's original 24 fps, so instead the simpler 2:2 pulldown technique is used: every frame of film becomes one frame of PAL video, with the result that the video version of the movie plays at 25 fps instead of 24 fps, or 4% faster than intended. It's not normally noticeable, but a 2-hour movie does become almost 5 minutes shorter when converted to PAL. (There is a more complex 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 pulldown technique that eliminates the speedup, but that's still quite new.) TomStuart (talk) 13:52, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

CD section stuff

the third and fourth paragraphs of the CD section are using terms that are confusing, and there should be more detail about how to actually fix the problems. also the use of the sound difference in decibles seems highly inaccurate. mike (talk) 22:15, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Uncle Pork-Flaps' nicknames

In case anyone gets the idea to list more of Vernon Dursley's nicknames, here's all of them according to my count:

Gigglesnort

Uncle Pigfat

Uncle Pork-flaps

Uncle Piggums

Uncle Salt-Porker —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwerty0 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Uncle Porkstar

Uncle Bacon-face

Uncle Fat Train

One of my favorite parts of the narration, so I wouldn't object to listing all of them. Qwerty0 (talk) 21:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

When working on this I considered it, but there are too many for the list I think. Nice to have a list somewhere though. --Thaddius (talk) 23:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Heh, yeah, that's kinda how I feel too, but I did want the names preserved somewhere for posterity. Good job on the list, then, btw. Qwerty0 (talk) 02:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Jokes list

Ok. It's getting a bit out of hand I think. Not every joke needs to be represented. If it gets much longer I'll consider trimming it down to just character names. --Thaddius (talk) 15:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Schizophrenia

In the Humor section of this article, it states that "Harry is also described with various symptoms of schizophrenia, at one point 'leaving his multiple personalities in the locker room.'" Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by the sufferer having a skewed perception of reality. It isn't the same as Dissociative Identity Disorder. -Craig 67.171.225.17 (talk) 23:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I changed it just for you ;) --Thaddius (talk) 13:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Sequel?

Would there, could there ever be a sequel to this award winning masterpiece? I heard that cease and desist letters were handed out but I did not read anything about that on the wiki. -Jim —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.247.1.252 (talk) 18:32, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be "Wizard People, Dear Reader"?

What I think is the "official" website (Illegal-art) has the name as above, with "Reader" in the singular. Same with the two biggest media references to it (that I'm aware of):

Salon

New York Times

On a separate note, adding the two reviews of it to the article could be a good idea. TheSlowLife (talk) 00:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)