The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by kuschku on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:33AM (#29226229)

Why is that an impracticality? TV productions are pretty much all still at 50/60Hz, they get syndicated to Netflix and streamed or sold on Blu-Ray and watched that way every day.

There's nothing new that has to be changed to support this, most of the content people are watching is already HFR.

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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by bscphil on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:57PM (#29233351)

This surprised me and so I wanted to check it out, but I think you're incorrect about this. I checked a number of shows shot in the last 15 years (The Expanse, The Wire, Schitt's Creek, Squid Game, Star Trek: Discovery, Foundation, New Girl, Community, Westworld), and every single one of them is either 24 fps or 23.976 fps in the versions available for streaming on the web.

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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by kuschku on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:08AM (#29239196)

Pretty much every TV documentary or larger production (e.g. Eurovision) is still 50/60Hz though.

It's only the narrative based shows that try to be "cinematic" which are at those low fps rates.

But the technology is there, it works just fine.

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