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Re:Motion Smoothing Is Ruining Cinema by Someone on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:43AM (#20523178)
If I’m not mistaken, video already is broadcast at 50/60 Hz. If so, how do broadcasters turn a 24 frames per second movie signal into a 50/60 frames per second video signal?

I would guess they use some (advanced) interpolation. If so, isn’t the problem one of a) interpolating twice instead of in one go and or b) using lower quality software inside the tv?

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Re:Motion Smoothing Is Ruining Cinema by paulryanrogers on Thursday July 25, 2019 @09:06AM (#20525003)
IIRC it's called 3/2 pull down. Basically they double a frame every so often.
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