Anything above 40 fps worth it?

[HappySkeptic]

Don't do games, but as someone who's done some research into high frame rates, I have to say, that at least for videos, a high frame rate is extremely overkill. I can remember watching the 70mm version of Oklahoma and finding something very off about the way everything moved:

I only watch movies in their original framerate, and I have a TV that can do original 24 fps without 3:2 judder (it takes a 120 Hz screen with proper firmware).

Our brain processes 24 fps differently than high fps.  For me, at high framerate, I become extremely focused on the motion of the camera.  If cinema is going to use high fps in the future, they may need new camera motion techniques.

[Jehanne]

This surprised me, but only a dozen or so movies have gone beyond the standard 24 fps:

Wikipedia -- List of films with high frame rates.

[Rev. Rye]

Not too surprising, given that, even now, High Frame Rate movies still look uncanny as fuck.





They also have to be expensive to produce (which wound up being a factor in why the film industry stuck with 24 frames per second after the introduction of sound forced them to standardise frame rates.)