23.976p or 24p for Blu-ray?

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by FritzKubrick

Thanks. I just don’t understand why though. If the films were shot at 24 and the players and TVs can do 24 then why not encode at 24?

Because the legacy of the 23.98 frame rate runs deep, it’s going back almost 70 years after all and it’s going to take a lot for US studios to break with that tradition. But, as noted in Lee’s article above, some stuff for streaming is now being made in 24 so that might start the move away from 23.98.

But, funnily enough, the new Avatars were shot in a non-integer frame rate too, 47.95 rather than 48 I think the post production guy said?