Am 05.01.2013 20:53, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:

> PS. Where the hell uses 24 FPS? I thought everything was 25 FPS...

Movies. All of them. Everywhere in the world (AFAIK).

25 fps was the effective framerate of the old European analog TV 
standard (50 fps interlaced), probably chosen due to the 50 Hz mains 
frequency. The US never had 25 fps anywhere - their analog TV standard 
had 60 fps interlaced (30 fps effective).

Fun fact: On European analog TV, it was customary that movies had a 
slightly shorter play time than in theaters. Not because they left out 
anything, but because for practical reasons they played them back at 25 
fps instead of the original 24 fps. (In the US, the customary way to 
adapt the framerate was to show each original frame for 2 or 3 half 
frames, alternatingly, resulting in no change to the play time.)

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