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And that's also why I'm satisfied with my Pioneer Elite 64". However, it appears Pioneer has gotten out of sets larger than 60" so I'll have to look elswhere for a new set as I won't go smaller than 64" now. Mitsubishi has 65" and 73" models, and I must say I like the 72" Sony I saw recently.

120 hertz rate is great as long as the transfer keeps the blur in the fast-motion that mimics the eye. 24fps film at normal exposure happens to be very close to that. Some high speed film stock that could make use of a variable shutter on a film camera will cause a reduction of that blur, and end up creating a strobe effect during scenes of motion. This effect has become more prevalent in video capture, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.

I have seen some same film transfers of both 3:2 pulldown and 5 blade shutters, and the 5 blade shutter when done right is very good. It does, in effect, creat two exposures on one field of video if captured in interlaced mode or one frame of video if progressive mode, so what happens is that the 5th exposure of a particular frame of film then is exposed with the 1st exposure of the next frame of film, and results in an artifically created blur effect. This happenes once between every two frames of film but really isn't even noticable.

The effect of 3:2 pulldown 'judder' is also imperceptible except to the trained and discerning eye, but to such an eye could be visible as alternately speeding and slowing motion, and since it would happen 5 times per second, you can see why most people wouldn't notice.