Would you like US HDTVs to support 50Hz content?

[4K2K]

Would you like US HDTVs to support 50Hz content/sources (ie. content shot at 25p, 50i, or 50p) as well as the sources they already support?

[sokrman14]

There is no reason to.

[4K2K]

Originally Posted by sokrman14

There is no reason to.

So you would never buy a European-produced drama, documentary, concert or film that was produced at this rate? Like Planet Earth, Pride & Prejudice or any concert or other show or sports disc that was produced in Europe at 25p, 50i or 50p? Or would you never want to watch the bonus content such as making of's for a title on a Blu-ray disc that is at or was originally produced at 25p, 50i or 50p?

[HDTV1080P]

BLU-RAY uses 1080p/24 worldwide for 99% of all movies (Bonus features are sometimes in NTSC or PAL). Watching 1080I HD at 50HZ, 720P HD at 50HZ , 576p at 50HZ, and 576i at 50HZ is ideal for international movies and videos that are available in that format. Almost all high-end ceiling mounted Front Projectors support 50HZ HD and 50HZ PAL/SECAM. The discontinued Pioneer PRO-141FD and PRO-101FD supports all the above listed signal formats.

Technically multi region DVD players and BLU-RAY players do not suppose to exist for legal reasons but they do show up on EBAY and other websites. Being able to play a BLU-RAY or DVD from anywhere in the world is attractive to many movie collectors.


The best quality option is for all the studios to encode all the film stocks with 4K or 6K+ masters and then transfer them to 1080P/24 BLU-RAY using high bit rate MPEG-4/AVC or high bit rate VC-1. It will take decades for all the movies out there to be released on BLU-RAY if every. I still have Laserdisc movies that have not come out on DVD or BLU-RAY yet.

[4K2K]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

The best quality option is for all the studios to encode all the film stocks with 4K or 6K+ masters and then transfer them to 1080P/24 BLU-RAY using high bit rate MPEG-4/AVC or high bit rate VC-1. It will take decades for all the movies out there to be released on BLU-RAY if every. I still have Laserdisc movies that have not come out on DVD or BLU-RAY yet.

What about things shot at things other than 24p? Including all European TV dramas? and all other things I mentioned? Or the US films and documentaries shot at things like 30p? It can't be the best quality for them to be transferred at 24p. Also think about what will happen in the future with 3D and digital cinema.

[HDTV1080P]

Originally Posted by 4K2K

What about things shot at things other than 24p? Including all European TV dramas? and all other things I mentioned? Or the US films and documentaries shot at things like 30p? It can't be the best quality for them to be transferred at 24p. Also think about what will happen in the future with 3D and digital cinema.

Film is shot at 24fps most of the time. It is rare to have film shot at 30fps. Now TV dramas and concerts that are encoded at 1080I video at 30fps onto videotape of course are better left in the original 30fps format. When I mention 1080p/24 I mean all film based sources that were shot on 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm film at 24fps.