[mythtv-users] dumb hdtv questions

[Brad Templeton]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >Known as EDTV though in theory that's any progressive frame rate.  This one
> >confuses me a bit.   Films are shot at 24fps, so therefore doing them at
> >60fps interlaced (30 full frames/second) contains as much information as
> >doing them at 30fps or 24fps progressive.  With the right decoders should
> >be able to lok th same.
> >
> 	Yes... do a little reading on 'telecining'.
> 

Actually I have, and I was lamenting that in spite of it being possible to
extract all the info, you often see people not doing this, so that
a progressive scan rendition of a 24fps film looks better than an interlaced
one, though it need not.