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I don't know of any tv ever produced that is less than 50-60fps. Do you mean that it interpolates lower fps content to bring it up to 60? If so all I can say is

I don't know of any tv ever produced that is less than 50-60fps. Do you mean that it interpolates lower fps content to bring it up to 60? If so all I can say is, I am surprised you like that effect. I can't stand it and always disable it.

demallien 14y ago
Yes, I do mean interpolation. Just for the record, in the parts of the world where I have worked (Australia and France), a typical video stream, be it broadcast/pay-tv/dvd runs at 30fps or less. Recent televisions will interpolate to display frame rates up to 120fps. Like you, I hated the effect at first, but I left it running because I do STB user interfaces for a living, and I need to know what people that don't fiddle with their television are seeing. It's jarring at first because for reasons that I don't fully understand, you are able to discern where the light sources are in a scene when using this technique. You can see that big reflectors have been used for outside shots, or that there is a spot shining just off camera. This is what gives it that cheap video effect, because as anyone that works with video for a living can tell you, the crappy quality of home videos is mostly due to poor lighting. Cinematographers are going to have to work harder in the future to assure a more even light field in their shots. In the meantime, I have found that after using this type of display technology for more than a few months, you start to prefer the high frame rate to older technologies.
Turing_Machine 14y ago
You may be thinking of fields per second rather than frames per second. Classic NTSC (used in North America and some other countries) runs at 30 frames per second. Each frame is made up of two fields, consisting of the odd and even-numbered scan lines respectively (this is called "interlace"), thus there are 60 fields per second. The PAL and SECAM systems (used in Europe and some other countries) run at 25 frames per second and 50 fields per second. In both cases, this was done because the power line frequency provided an easy-to-use reference signal for frame timing (the North American power grid runs at 60 Hz, most (all?) European countries use 50 Hz).

demallien 14y ago

Yes, I do mean interpolation. Just for the record, in the parts of the world where I have worked (Australia and France), a typical video stream, be it broadcast/pay-tv/dvd runs at 30fps or less. Recent televisions will interpolate to display frame rates up to 120fps. Like you, I hated the effect at first, but I left it running because I do STB user interfaces for a living, and I need to know what people that don't fiddle with their television are seeing. It's jarring at first because for reasons that I don't fully understand, you are able to discern where the light sources are in a scene when using this technique. You can see that big reflectors have been used for outside shots, or that there is a spot shining just off camera. This is what gives it that cheap video effect, because as anyone that works with video for a living can tell you, the crappy quality of home videos is mostly due to poor lighting. Cinematographers are going to have to work harder in the future to assure a more even light field in their shots. In the meantime, I have found that after using this type of display technology for more than a few months, you start to prefer the high frame rate to older technologies.

Turing_Machine 14y ago

You may be thinking of fields per second rather than frames per second. Classic NTSC (used in North America and some other countries) runs at 30 frames per second. Each frame is made up of two fields, consisting of the odd and even-numbered scan lines respectively (this is called "interlace"), thus there are 60 fields per second. The PAL and SECAM systems (used in Europe and some other countries) run at 25 frames per second and 50 fields per second. In both cases, this was done because the power line frequency provided an easy-to-use reference signal for frame timing (the North American power grid runs at 60 Hz, most (all?) European countries use 50 Hz).