OK,,, I'm still clueless!

H-hdr
D-don't
R-register

 

120hz might be the biggest scam known to man.

Did you know movies are only filmed at 24 frames per second?

I suspect what is happening is that with the MPEG decoding, or image resizing, or a few other things, having to support 120hz requires a very fast image processor, so that the image overall looks better. And in doing so, they can fudge the MPEG decoding (and motion) between frames and make it look better overall.

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Back to the original poster's pictures:

They look almost cartoonish, the greens from the trees are a little TOO overexposed.

Or maybe, the overexposed part is just TOO much?

Pretty wild looking though.

But it still doesn't look "right" to me

 

The headlights make it look like the truck is possessed by the devil.

Evil eyes.

 

ok Badass we'll try one more time.

I get that HDR has to do with photography but does the H--D--R stand for something? you know like FBI, CIA, IRS, PMS, FTE, etc...

 

HDR photo software & plugin - Tone Mapping, Exposure Fusion & HDR Imaging for photography That site will explain anything you need to know about HDR and why we use it!

Cheers.

 

Ok
High Dynamic Range.
Now that we cleared that up.
Thanks

 

Everyone else figured it out back in post #5.

 

How about sizing those babies smaller. Won't take up so much bandwidth, and friendlier to those with dial up.

 

They are hosted off site, and they are no more then 1mb per pic.. also.... dial up? are you kidding me!

 

There are lots of dialup people here on FTE

 

no offense but i didn't even know there was support for dialup any more

 

Actually 120Hz isn't a scam at all, it's a great thing.

Most big budget movies are shot on film at 24 frames per second. So when they show on a normal 60Hz TV they have to show one frame 3 times, then another frame 2 times, another frame 3 times, another frame 2 times, etc. This is called 3:2 pulldown. This causes uneven motion while watching (called judder), especially fast moving objects.

TV shows and some other material is shot at 60 frames per second so you don't have the uneven motion problem.

So Engineers decided to make 120Hz TVs. This is because 120 is the lowest common multiple of 24 and 60. So on a 120Hz tv you can show each frame of 24Hz material 5 times, and you get rid of the uneven motion caused by 3:2 pulldown. Likewise you can show each frame of 60Hz material twice and keep from introducing judder.

The big disagreement when it comes to 120Hz is with a feature that many of the manufacturers decided to add, frame interpolation. They all have different names for it like MotionFlow, TruMotion, etc). What is done here is they take two consecutive frames from a movie for example and compare them. They then "guess" at what motion actually occurred in between those frames and make new frames using thier "guess". So when you watch 24Hz material the TV is actually guessing about what happens in between those frames and creates 4 frames on it's own to insert between the real frames. Sometimes these guesses can make motion very awkward. If it works right it ends up making 24Hz filmed material look like home movies or TV shows.

Most film fans (including myself) hate this frame interpolation and will suggest everyone turn it off immediately upon opening the box. However most will agree that a 120Hz TV with frame interpolation turned off can create a wonderful film like experience.

 

72 F250,


If you read link #7 posted by the same from #5 you will see that it was assumed or guessed it was High Dynamic Range and that there was no 100% confirmation from Badass what it was. Sorry i forgot my "GOD" hat.

 

That's what I was alluding to.

The 3:2 thing, I recall reading about too...

Beerstalker, thanks for the great explanation - not that it has ANYTHING to do with this thread

Learn something new everyday.

 

Woh there, I was just joking. Didn't mean to offend you.