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ctalkeb said:
JHawkNH said:
Does anyone know the answer to this question?
I keep hearing about people getting headaches from 30 FPS in games, but nobody complains about getting headaches at a 24 FPS movie. Why is that?

Well, you'll get a headache if those 30 or 24 frames were just thrown out there at that speed, but that isn't what's happening. Rather, a single image is displayed several times making sure that you don't get a "flickery" effect. For 3D though, if you can only display @60 hz, those are divided between your eyes and you'll actually notice that flickering.


I was actually talking about movie theaters where it is 24 frames per second.  Not video signals where 24 fps has been converted to 60 fps.

If lower fps can cause headaches, then 24 fps (or watching a movie at a theater should cause more headaches then a 30 fps video picture.