News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening. Parent comment

Re:AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening by account42 on Friday July 04, 2025 @06:14AM (#44463131)
Same reason why movies still use extremely low frame rates - because people have gotten used to that effect.

It doesn't help that a lot of great movies are older thus those limitations of older technology become subconsciously associated with quality.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:15PM (#44465770)
...what makes the frame rate thing especially weird is how many TVs ship with motion smoothing enabled by default, which looks so much worse than actual high frame rate content would.

I don't like it at all. But someone must, or the TV manufacturers wouldn't do it.

Part of me thinks that it's only the people who know what "frame rate" means who prefer low frame rates, and a majority of the general public actually prefers high frame rates but lacks the terminology or knowledge to express this desire.

[ Parent | on HN ]