Hey everyone, I've searched through the forums to try to find an answer to this, but I've found conflicting posts. Basically I'm shopping for a new TV and I'm wondering whether to get a 120hz or 60hz set. Without going into opinions on the virtues of each, I'm curious about the actual factual stuff.
I know that most movies are filmed 24 frames a second. A lot of people say that because of this, 120hz sets display bluray movies better than 60hz sets because the source doesn't need 3:2 pulldown.
I've heard other people say that although the movies are recorded at 24fps, edited at 24fps and projected in theaters at 24fps, the actual bluray outputs are actually stored at 1080p 30fps. And alongside this, I've heard people say that bluray players actually output at 30fps 60hz.
So with this in mind, if the 3:2 pulldown has been hard-coded onto the disc, it would surely make the 'pulldown issue' a moot point when it comes to deciding on a TV? Again, I don't want to go into the other pros/cons of each, I just want to stick to the actual technical facts of bluray movies originally filmed 24fps. I know that films on cable tv is actually 60hz interlaced.
Does anyone know what format the movies are stored as and what most bluray players output as? Also - as a sidenote - assuming that bluray movies are stored as 30fps and output by players at 60hz, do 120Hz TVs then successfully reverse the pulldown, so that the fields in a 1sec sequence get converted from from AABBB to AAAAABBBBB?
I know that most movies are filmed 24 frames a second. A lot of people say that because of this, 120hz sets display bluray movies better than 60hz sets because the source doesn't need 3:2 pulldown.
I've heard other people say that although the movies are recorded at 24fps, edited at 24fps and projected in theaters at 24fps, the actual bluray outputs are actually stored at 1080p 30fps. And alongside this, I've heard people say that bluray players actually output at 30fps 60hz.
So with this in mind, if the 3:2 pulldown has been hard-coded onto the disc, it would surely make the 'pulldown issue' a moot point when it comes to deciding on a TV? Again, I don't want to go into the other pros/cons of each, I just want to stick to the actual technical facts of bluray movies originally filmed 24fps. I know that films on cable tv is actually 60hz interlaced.
Does anyone know what format the movies are stored as and what most bluray players output as? Also - as a sidenote - assuming that bluray movies are stored as 30fps and output by players at 60hz, do 120Hz TVs then successfully reverse the pulldown, so that the fields in a 1sec sequence get converted from from AABBB to AAAAABBBBB?