How do you come to this conclusion?
Only because it is certainly current practice to pitch correct PAL DVDs; that's how current releases are invariably done and it has been this way since at least the mid-90s.
Are your uncorrected discs from what might be called the early days of DVD? At that point, people were making DVDs from Betacam SP tapes, which were generally transferred from internegatives or even show prints of films, and commonly have the issue we're discussing. More recent DVD releases, even of older films, tend to be retransferred from a film element, possibly to an HD master, or the DVDs are derived from digital intermediate data - these will invariably have the audio correction done. The old SP masters, which were intended for making VHS tapes, never made very good DVDs anyway, and now are used only for the lowest of low-rent stuff. I'm talking about mainstream live-action films here; I don't know what the guys in Japan get up to with anime releases. Presuming they master the animation at 24p (given that it's now mainly done digitally and not by shooting cels) the same considerations apply. It's a sad fact that a lot of western anime releases are very budget, especially in 25-frame markets which are presumably even smaller than the NTSC ones.
This isn't a problem that only hits "small" films, either - notoriously, Blade Runner didn't get a fresh transfer until quite recently, because of disagreement over rights issues.
Yes, I completely understand that the supplementary tracks don't get corrected.
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