Samsung - where performance matters

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Actual non snarky question (i know in an apple-android thread??)

Forget the thread topic, a non-snarky question from YOU is the real shocker!

about this, since I'm not a technophile. Movies are filmed around 30 FPS - why should we care about higher FPS - what is the difference when thats around what your brain processes? Whats the point of diminishing returns?

I'm much more of a moviephile than a gamer, and 30 FPS is actually pretty crappy. We're just used to it. For the US, most movies are 24FPS, but there is a big move towards 48FPS now. Peter Jackson started it off with the Hobbit, which really freaked a lot of people out (because the hyper-realism made it look "un-movie-like"), but James Cameron is doing the next Avatar movies in 48FPS as well, so as more movies come out that way, it will get more accepted.

For games, it's probably more to do with the refresh rate of the monitor. 60Hz is supported by just about all modern monitors, but you can get 120Hz and 144Hz as well.

With PC games, it's more about balancing the frame rate against the resolution and graphics "stuff" you have turned on. In other words...if you only get 5FPS while all the fancy options turned on, you'd better off turning some stuff off (and maybe lowering resolution) so you can get up to 60FPS.