Is 60 FPS a New Standard for TV?
I noticed for the newest episodes of WandaVision that are coming out that some versions of them are tagged as 60 FPS. I don't recall previously seeing 60 FPS explicitly marked on any other TV shows or streaming content.
Apparently the previous standard was:
24fps – This is the standard for movies and TV shows, and it was determined to be the minimum speed needed to capture video while still maintaining realistic motion. Even if a film is shot at a higher frame rate, it’s often produced and displayed at 24 FPS. Most feature films and TV shows are shot and viewed at 24 FPS.
WandaVision is certainly not a show with a lot of busy scenes nor does it seem like there are a lot of slow-mo effects - which usually seems like a good use of 60 FPS. In fact, a lot of the "modern day" scenes in WandaVision actually look quite amateurish cinematography wise; it almost looks like a High School film project in parts. Could it be that the higher FPS makes it look worse?
Is 60 FPS becoming the new standard for TV?
Best Answer
I see nothing relating to this on either Wikipedia or IMDB. You'd think if they were trying some new format, they'd want to tell people about it.
BTW, 24fps is traditional cinema; TV is 25 PAL/SECAM [Europe] or 29.97 NTSC [America/Japan].
Artificially interpolating to 60 fps [called Sport mode on some TVs] can make regular cinematic imagery look awful. The eye/brain expects motion blur on cinematic productions, so much so that if it's artificially reduced it looks odd. The brain expects this so much that sometimes it's actally artificially increased, to make action look 'even more cinematic than cinema'. This was one of the things they had to learn in CGI too, to make things look more realistic.
When the Hobbit was first released at 48fps, this lack of motion blur was what people were complaining about - whether they realised why it bothered them or not.
Without knowing what the source of these 60fps versions is all I can do is voice is my suspicion that these have been done by the same people who are confused by the teen gaming interweb meme voodoo that games are 'better' at higher fps.
Edit
A quick google shows the only source to be clueless interwebz bozos on YouTube, as surmised.
The official trailers are all at approx 25 fps (my onscreen fps widget measures actual, which varies slightly, not transmitted.)
In short; don't mess with things you don't understand. Allow that the people who made the show and spent millions of dollars doing so probably know what they're doing.
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Do most TVs support 60 fps?
If you just want 60 FPS, then virtually any 4k TV will work, including cheaper models like the Vizio V Series. You don't need HDMI 2.1 for that, only HDMI 2.0 which is standard on all modern TV's. HDMI 2.1 has enough bandwidth for 4k@120hz.Are TV shows 60fps?
24fps \u2013 This is the standard for movies and TV shows, and it was determined to be the minimum speed needed to capture video while still maintaining realistic motion. Even if a film is shot at a higher frame rate, it's often produced and displayed at 24 FPS.Is 60 fps the standard?
It's just a historical artefact. Really old NTSC (US & Japan) TVs ran at 60Hz because it was easier to sync (AC power was also 60Hz, so you could use that to help keep sync). So, the transmission standard was based on that, and because that was the standard everything else followed suit.Do all 4K TVs support 60fps?
The higher the frame rate, the smoother the motion appears. The optimal frame rate for 4K is 60fps; however, some 4K UHD TVs only support 4K at 30fps.Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [4K 60FPS]
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