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28 Jul 2024 20:31:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Hobbit and high framerate  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 5 Jan 2013 16:53:19
Message: <50e8a0cf@news.povray.org>
On 05/01/2013 09:01 PM, clipka wrote:
> 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).

Just to clarify: By "old European analogue TV", you mean the thing they 
only switched off a year or so ago, and which is still the standard 
framerate for (at least) region-2 DVDs?


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