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To: Rob Cavese who wrote (7985)	10/8/1998 8:42:00 AM
From: Michael Linov	Respond to of 16960

People tend to forget that frame rates over 30 provide temporal anti-aliasing (read: Hardware motion blur), and greatly improve the quality of moving visuals. Also, subtle motion can be detected by the human eye at frequencies as high as 80 hz. BTW, having played (way too many) computer games, I now really do notice jerkiness in (real) movies. In scenes where the camera pans radically, the movie actually appears very jerky... almost unacceptable by pc standards : ) (Yes , I'm serious... try it next time you go to an action flick with flying sequences). Lets not forget IMAX, which makes moving images almost 3-dimesional because of higher-res / frame rates. I think tom is trying to justify his new chosen video card by downplaying its weakness (low frame rates).