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Old 13th January 2018, 09:46   #10  |  Link
manono
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Originally Posted by johnmeyer View Post
No one uses "25i" to describe PAL interlaced.
I disagree. If the number is supposed to refer to the framerate as it does in every other similar use, then it's 25 frames per second and not 50 frames per second. That would be 50 fields per second. If i or p refers to either the content or how it was encoded, then it's 25 frames per second interlaced. I'm not as much someone as the BBC but, in my opinion, this 60i and 50i nonsense created confusion where there was none before. It was a creation of corporations and their PR stooges to make this 50i or 60i sound somehow better than 25i or 30i.

Following the 50i line of reasoning, then you'd also call it 1080i 50? No, of course not. It's 1080i 25. And 25i.

But, as pdr also said, "Not this again."

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