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Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?

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From: Andrew Smallshaw
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:10
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On 2012-03-15, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:

> So then there are the guys running a 60 Hz display, probably
> most of the peesees, and feeding that with HDMI into the latest LCD TV,
> and then play a 50 Hz movie on it.
> I have tried all that to see what happens, and it is shit.

...and even if you DO match the frame rates you are still watching
a film originally shot at 24 Hz.  Do you ever notice how films on
TV are "really shit"?  No: that shows how silly the argument is.
There's sufficient latency in the eye's response that at these
kinds of frame rates a slightly inconsistent frame rate is a complete
non-issue.  You can always imagine problems if you want, but the
average user doesn't care because it isn't a problem that exists
in any real-world sense.

-- 
Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org
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