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Yeah it's a 60Hz country, it affects perceived vehicle and pedestrian/animal movement too - everything's noticeably a bit smoother to the eye, it takes a while to get used to it.

The first time I went there I spent about half the day in the park tossing frisbees to dogs just to marvel at how smoothly everything seemed to move.

[jjgreen]

Yeah it's a 60Hz country

Hence the 29.97 FPS for TV ...

[jcotton42]

Not sure if I'm missing a joke or something but the 29.97 is from two things.

1. TV was 60i (interlace), which equates to 30p (progressive)

2. The missing 0.03 frames is due to how color NTSC works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InrDRGTPqnE

[jjgreen]

Not really a joke, more PTSD having worked in this space for a few years. "29.97" is what everyone calls it, but the value is exactly 30000/1001 which cannot be represented as a floating point number, so you have to use rational arithmetic when dealing with framerates and timestamps on video (if you care about accuracy), ... and don't get me started on drop-frames, oy!

[amne]

I love it. :)))

[ifwinterco]

Cries in PAL

[sschueller]

At least you got a few more lines...