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Re:JPEG Compression on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:50AM (#47426511)
Yeah, that's pretty much it. They standardized on 24 back when sound on film took over Hollywood, and we now have a century of film shot at that speed. It's what "the movies" look like. There have been a few attempts to introduce higher frame rates, like Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and James Cameron's Avatar, both at 48 fps, but audiences by and large don't seem to like the higher frame rates. It doesn’t help that we have nearly a century of NTSC TV at ~60 fps[1], and our cultural memory equates these frame rates with live tv or the "soaps," not the prestige of movies.

[1]Technically 29.97fps but the interlacing gives 59.94 fields per second.

Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:33PM (#47039958)
In my experience, just fine. I recently ran a large (~30k) marathon and my AirPods and watch never glitched once, streaming the whole time including in the packed start corrals. I had the same thought about RF contention, but Bluetooth didn't seem to care.
Re:Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:13PM (#43712742)
The space themed store south of Houston is now home to Axiom Space (https://www.axiomspace.com).
Re:The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:36PM (#43259571)
I think the poster is referring to "Brand Indicators for Message Identification[1]". A new(ish) protocol to display branded avatars for messages in email clients.

1. https://bimigroup.org

Re:FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:10PM (#42394633)
There is a standard for it, 802.11ah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah). But I don’t know how many devices are shipping.