video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 09:35:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> So blowing hundreds of dollars just so half my stuff looks 
> *worse* and other stuff looks (to me) only marginally better? 
> Pass.

I've seen a few high def tvs. I like half of them, though
not enough to displace my old set.

The ones I didn't like though are apparently the more
expensive ones. What happens is motion looks really
bizarre on these. I don't know how to describe it, but
watching a show on it just feels... weird as the camera
moves.

At first, I thought it was because these things are so
big that it was messing with my brain.

But, I brought this up on another forum and I was told
that's a feature in the hardware: apparently the expensive
sets interpolate frames into regular shows and display
more movement. So, instead of 23 fps, we get, I think,
30 fps, though I'm not sure, out of the same original material.

Anyway, everyone insists this is "better" and I think
it is weird just because I'm "so used to seeing shit".



But blargh, I still don't like it.