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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by wongarsu on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:14PM (#29221228)
The jump from HD to UHD quadruples the number of pixels, the jump from 24 fps to 60 fps only increases framerate by a factor of 2.5. Not to mention that the panels in any old HD TV will happily work with a 60 fps signal via HDMI, while the upgrade to UHD requires a new TV.

Yes, more frames means more data, but it creates fewer problems than the 4k/UHD upgrade everyone willingly goes through, while doing more to increase fidelity.

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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by bscphil on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:19PM (#29221265)
Right, but everyone agrees that UHD is an enormous improvement worth buying new hardware for. You said "there are no technical problems or impracticalities" to high frame rates, but 2.5 times the uncompressed bitrate is a technical problem, and so you have to have a situation where people are willing to pay for an upgrade. Most people seemingly don't care enough.
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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by toast0 on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:19AM (#29225016)
> the 4k/UHD upgrade everyone willingly goes through

I looked for 1080p screens when I last bought a TV and couldn't find any. 65", and wanting fairly quality, but no 4k sources so why do I need 4x the pixels? (Sadly, the week after I bought what I bought, I happened across some 65" new in box Plasma TVs at auction... Oh well)

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