The death of the 24 frame.

In support of "movies are meant to emulate reality":
Why do we complain when movie characters act without motivation? When actors cast don't look the part? When period movies don't use the right costumes? When tribal Africans in Hollywood films speak American English? Because movies work best when they make us forget - for the moment - that they are not real.

Another argument in favor of 120Hz frame interpolation:
HD videos look better than SD videos because of the resolution. 120fps movies should look better than 24fps movies because they have more temporal resolution. You can see what's happening more clearly.

Reasons why current 120Hz frame interpolated movies may look bad:
- Current frame interpolation algorithms probably introduce motion artifacts that make the videos look less beautiful than movies shot at 60-120p.
- 24fps movies are usually shot with the shutter at 1/48. When you convert that video to 120fps, the shutter is still at 1/48. The resulting video is blurrier than it should be at that frame rate. It would be more blurry than 'reality' i.e. fake.
 
seunosewa said:
In support of "movies are meant to emulate reality":
Why do we complain when movie characters act without motivation? When actors cast don't look the part? When period movies don't use the right costumes? When tribal Africans in Hollywood films speak American English? Because movies work best when they make us forget - for the moment - that they are not real.

Another argument in favor of 120Hz frame interpolation:
HD videos look better than SD videos because of the resolution. 120fps movies should look better than 24fps movies because they have more temporal resolution. You can see what's happening more clearly.

Reasons why current 120Hz frame interpolated movies may look bad:
- Current frame interpolation algorithms probably introduce motion artifacts that make the videos look less beautiful than movies shot at 60-120p.
- 24fps movies are usually shot with the shutter at 1/48. When you convert that video to 120fps, the shutter is still at 1/48. The resulting video is blurrier than it should be at that frame rate. It would be more blurry than 'reality' i.e. fake.
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I will actually agree that higher frame rates should at some point be adopted. A problem with 3D movies, as good as they've gotten, is that judder causes weird ghosting to happen in fast moving scenes. A higher frame rate would remedy that. Also, it's interlacing that really makes video look like video, not so much the higher frame rate. What most object to here is the way these tv's upsample films to 120hz. It's not really meant for that so things get weird looking. And I'd rather just watch films in their native rate, whatever that may be.
 
Batutta said:
I will actually agree that higher frame rates should at some point be adopted. A problem with 3D movies, as good as they've gotten, is that judder causes weird ghosting to happen in fast moving scenes. A higher frame rate would remedy that. Also, it's interlacing that really makes video look like video, not so much the higher frame rate. What most object to here is the way these tv's upsample films to 120hz. It's not really meant for that so things get weird looking. And I'd rather just watch films in their native rate, whatever that may be.
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It's the motion interpolating features that people are complaining about, but those can be turned off. They wouldn't be possible on a non-120Hz television set, but 120Hz is not to blame. 120Hz just means the TVs are just refreshing faster. It's the "smoothing" filters that are actually changing the way content looks.

If the TV has 5:5 pull-down, 24p material should display identical to that of the cinema, because it can display each frame for 5/120 of a second, which ends up being exactly 1/24 of a second.

24p lovers should be happy about 120Hz television sets. Just make sure you wait to buy one until you can find one that has 5:5 pull-down.
 
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