Posted on 12/06/2018 10:03:08 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
To cleanse the palate, a watershed moment in celebrity public service announcements. This is simultaneously the most trivial, and most useful, PSA to come out of Hollywood in decades.
And it’s not annoying! Until today I couldn’t have imagined what it’d be like to watch an A-list actor speak didactically about a Matter of Concern and not come away highly irritated. “When’s he going to get to the part about climate change or impeaching Trump?” I kept thinking.
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Tell Tom we already solved the problem.
We don’t watch tv.
5.56mm
Hi, I’m Tom Cruise. Be sure to permanently tune your TV to station X E N U. Thank you.
Wait...yes I think you’re right, movies are a sliver slower than 24 fps, it’s like 23.997, or something, for the super geeks.
And Hollywood is super particular about it.
FWIW, movies are played at 24fps.
FWIW, movies are played at 24fps.
While Tom may be correct, he doesn’t seem to know that all TV’s even if they are 4K Ultra HD do nor get 4K signal from their cable providers................
Yes, that’s correct.
factoid about movie frame rates: (wiki )
When sound film was introduced in 1926, variations in film speed were no longer tolerated, as the human ear is more sensitive to changes in audio frequency.
Many theaters had shown silent films at 22 to 26 fps—which is why the industry chose 24 fps for sound as a compromise.[10]
From 1927 to 1930, as various studios updated equipment, the rate of 24 fps became standard for 35 mm sound film.[1]
At 24 fps the film travels through the projector at a rate of 456 millimetres (18.0 in) per second. This allowed for simple two-blade shutters to give a projected series of images at 48 per second, satisfying Edison’s recommendation.
Many modern 35 mm film projectors use three-blade shutters to give 72 images per second—each frame is flashed on screen three times.[8]”
source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate
That's stretching HD into a theatrical widescreen.
Black bars on top and bottom is what you must have to correctly view a widescreen movie (2.35:1 aspect ratio) on a HD screen (16:9 aspect ration).
(Most) Film is played back at 24 fps.
Video is mostly encoded at and meant to be played back at 29.97 fps.
The ATSC standard allows for 23.976 fps, which I assume is meant to be used for playback and broadcasting of film at a frequency that is compatible with the 29.97 fps frequency used for video.
This is a bit of a pain in the ass for the broadcast industry, as they need to track exact running times, but at 29.97 fps, 30 frames actually takes slightly over a second to play out. They use something called “drop frame” counting to skip 2 frames in the time code (HH:MM:SS:FF, where FF is the frame count, usually 0-29) at the start of each minute, except for the ones evenly divisible by 10 (so not at the 10, 20, 30... minute marks).
I searched the internet until I found a site with the recommendations for all the advanced video settings for my TV.
-PJ
He is partially correct. If you have an old 4:3 aspect ratio tv, yes. And yes, the early 16:9 HD tv's had adjustments like stretch, expand, and full to fill in the screen for 4:3 camera productions. It used to be called "letterbox" and the adjustments would make it fill in but distort the image - depending on which setting.
Every TV production now uses HD cameras (16:9). Even older movies on premium channels have been re-mixed to fill the screen on newer HD displays. Other than the very poor or the use of small tv's for counter-top usage, most Americans now have an HD tv.
We had a Mitsubishi first generation HD (tube rear projection) for years and had to deal with the above adjustments for some time. As HD camera usage became the norm, we needed less adjustments.
Side-note: We recently splurged on a 4k Ultra High Definition and the picture is so beyond early HD(1080)it amazes us all the time. Yes, most people can't afford them as yet, but if you can, it is like looking through a window. Ours is LG 4k OLED. Also, the up-scaling of non-remixed older movies is phenomenal. Any older movie that has not been re-mixed has the detail and color of any recent movie. It's like seeing the movie for the first time. Amazing!
Most theatrical movies are filmed in cinemascope or panavision and still have varying size black bars on top and bottom because of wider and different aspect ratios. However, the old grayish bars are now black with the new 4k OLED displays so you get used to them. The contrast is just incredible - blacks are black and whites are white and everything in-between as it was shot.
Yep. It’s called letterboxing. I used to buy a lot of movies on laserdisk that were letterboxed on my old 25” monitor.
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We had a Mitsubishi first generation HD (tube rear projection) for years and had to deal with the above adjustments for some time. As HD camera usage became the norm, we needed less adjustments.
It depends on what you are trying to do. I also had a Mitsubishi DLP TV. I have never needed to use the "stretch" or "zoom" controls except in rare instances. If a movie is shot in 4:3 (Casablanca, Gone With the wind, et al) I watch the film in that ratio and have black bars on the sides. Same holds true for older TV shows. If I am watching a film with a wider aspect ration than 16:9 (e.g. Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia), I will have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The only time I use the zoom function is if I am watching an old non-anamorphic widescreen movie like a laserdisc or an old DVD. The picture will have to be zoomed to fill up the normal widescreen area and will probably look distorted.
Film is still shot in 24fps. Some video productions (fast action) are shot in faster frame rates so as to slow the action down in replay and not look blurry or have artifacts. Then you have super high fast cameras for showing the slow motion of a bullet hitting a target or other action the eye can't see in standard 24fps.
The "soap opera" effect is about the refresh rate on early HD tv's that gave movies a video look rather than the film look. It's been fixed with the latest film to video transfer technology and current displays.
The stores do that intentionally for effect to counter their bright lights. An honest salesman will tell you so.
All the over the air channels like 2.2, 5.2, 5.3, 13.4 etc are horrible looking and look like 360 pixel youtube videos. I watch WKRP on the ME channel and can barely make out the faces as they are blurry and pixelated. The main channel like ABC will have a great picture but the sub channels are given less bandwidth.
What brand?
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