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High frame rate = aaagggh

posted 8 years ago by Benski2046
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They tried it with The Hobbit, they tried it in the early days of cinema, it works great with videogames, VR, sports, etc..

But with this everything's so smooth I find myself staring at bits of wall, glass joins, irrelevant background movement, swirling past like someone's turned 100hz motion smoothing technology on on my TV. Any sense of realism's lost and I'm focusing more on bits of background than on what's going on.

PS - if you haven't turned motion smoothing on your TV off, presumably everything looks like this. In which case I pity you.

[–] jmillerdp 8 years ago

Wow! They're actually bothering with HFR on a show that looks like Roger Corman made it? No wait, it would look MUCH better if Corman made it! 

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[–] rp69 8 years ago

I like Roger Corman crap and aip movies. Someone else mentioned the sets look like recycled 1960s sets. Makes me want to check it out. I also love the look of high frame rate. Unfortunately, my TVs don't support it. I'm mesmerized when I see it on display in BestBuy. Looks like watching live action through a window. My 2 50" plasmas are pushing 10 years old. I want my next TVs to have smooth motion technology.

And your post about a multi-racial cast being as boring as the whitest of white people. That's a product of being too PC. They want to be PC and have representation of all races. But if they portray their natural culture and personalities, they think they'll be stereotyping. Because in a PC world, everyone has to be the same. Just not white.

[–] nerfdump 8 years ago

That's for the tip, it was so jarring I thought they'd switched to cheapo video instead of film. Then when the actors heads unnaturally whizzed by the camera I thought my VLC had accidentally sped up the playback a notch. They're making a lot of mistakes in this 5th episode. It reminded me of the quote, CGI is more accurate but looks less real whereas old fashioned model animation looks less accurate but more real.

[–] Satan2016 8 years ago

What the hell are you talking about? SDTV has always been 50/60hz. 1080i is also. Nobody broadcast at higher rates. Progressive is 24/25/30hz.

[–] Benski2046 8 years ago

And films shot in 24fps would be displayed on a 50/60hz set with a Telecine process, then making a single film frame occupy two consecutive video frames.

Modern HDTVs can do 50/60p (as many videogames do), or broadcast higher frame-rates interlaced. Our satellite TV services over here broadcast 50/60p.