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Originally Posted by ArakAtak
Except they weren't, film was always exactly 24fps, still is usually. It is modified to 23.98 for video so you can do a 3:2 pulldown to convert it to 29.97 for broadcast on NTSC colour TV.
Black & white TV in NTSC was always 30fps (to match with the 60Hz electrical frequency) but was reduced to 29.97 to allow for the colour information to be sent.
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Yeah, I didn't want to get TOO spergy on the post. But a lot of this does stem from the earliest days of film and television broadcasting in order to compress information, establish aspect ratios, and allow for the encoding of color information.
In all honesty, I'm not sure if all of this is really needed today, but because it was a set of evolutionary steps in the production of film and television, I'm not sure that the system could be dumped entirely for something else, or if it'd even be worth it.
Since everything is now digital they could arguably remake the standard to whatever they want.
I was more focusing on the reasons why digital films, especially in the wake of the Star Wars prequels why this major shift to CGI just leaves you with this gut feeling that what you're watching is incredibly fake from a visual standpoint.
I've always felt like practical effects were so much better because even though it takes a bit of work to get something modeled, making it in CGI is arguably more laborious because you have to fine tune all the visuals, motion blur, color saturation, frame rate, shutter speeds, lighting effects, etc, just to make it look like it fits into the scene.
This (practical effect):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0
Looks more realistic than this (purely digital effect):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfKAC6eOlXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_KuLEjkF1E
Anyways, I'm digressing and rambling, on with the gifs.