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need advice ASAP! tv, should i buy it?!

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poofyhairguy said:
The only way the TV signal is coming in as 60hz is if the source is a game console or computer.

Almost all movies are shot at 24fps (except like the Hobbit movie but you can't buy the 48fps source on Blu Ray). Most TV is shot a 24fps or 30fps (like reality TV).

Given this if you care AT ALL about movie watching don't buy a 60hz TV in 2013.
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Almost all content arrives at 60hz, even if it wasn't filmed that way. They do 3:2 pull-down for 24fps material. They just double each from for 30fps.

I thought some types of programs are typically filmed at 60, right? Sports, news, soap operas?
 
Ichinisan said:
Almost all content arrives at 60hz, even if it wasn't filmed that way. They do 3:2 pull-down for 24fps material. They just double each from for 30fps.

I thought some types of programs are typically filmed at 60, right? Sports, news, soap operas?
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Fields Per Second and Frames Per Second are different things.
 
CZroe said:
Fields Per Second and Frames Per Second are different things.
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It's usually drawing another frame, interlaced with the previous one...so you can have 60FPS TV material...it's just 60 half-detail frames with alternating fields. Similar frames, combined together, can appear to be more detailed than a progressive 240p frame...almost as detailed as 480p. It requires half the bandwidth of 480p

Analog TV cameras would scan 240 lines down (skipping every other line), then 240 lines again (on the in-between lines). They scan top-to-bottom 60 times per-second. Because there is motion between the field refreshes, there is a noticeable difference in smoothness of motion between 30 frames-per-second 480p and 60 fields-per-second 480i (60FPS 480i would have smoother motion).
 
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i love this tv. just tested Avatar and a couple of Super HD movies on Netflix. it is great. i should have bought another one. games look good too. def worth the dollars.
 
Ichinisan said:
It's usually drawing another frame, interlaced with the previous one...so you can have 60FPS TV material...it's just 60 half-detail frames with alternating fields. Similar frames, combined together, can appear to be more detailed than a progressive 240p frame...almost as detailed as 480p. It requires half the bandwidth of 480p

Analog TV cameras would scan 240 lines down (skipping every other line), then 240 lines again (on the in-between lines). They scan top-to-bottom 60 times per-second. Because there is motion between the field refreshes, there is a noticeable difference in smoothness of motion between 30 frames-per-second 480p and 60 fields-per-second 480i (60FPS 480i would have smoother motion).
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The 60 fields per second were made from 60 different source frames, but it still isn't 60 FPS.
 
SandEagle said:
i love this tv. just tested Avatar and a couple of Super HD movies on Netflix. it is great. i should have bought another one. games look good too. def worth the dollars.
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Yeah calibration took a bit, but loving it for sure. Still need to rest some HD netflix stuff.
 
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