Do I need to encode at 29.97fps?

[jnyfive]

I understand the difference and reason why 29.97fps becomes 23.976 fps from a DVD. My question, with larger and newer HDTVs, by using Handbrake's "same as source" setting for frame rates, is it noticeable on newer TVs? Meaning are the extra frames still wasteful or would the extra frames make a difference for the action videos? I got a handful of movies encoded and in reading about the process it seems that its not needed but the only articles I can find regarding the newer TV are a few years older. If the newer TVs, Samsung 60" in my case, require the extra frames for clarity I would like to change my process before I get too far along.

Thank you.

[dannyboy48888]

Depending on your source it's really 23.976 FPS anyway (I.E most films) with "flags" that tell it to repeat a field for CRT tv's, so no you don't need to. The only time you should see the video jump up to 30FPS is some TV shows and some animes

[jnyfive]

Excellent. Thank you very much.

[_Al_]

... never mind

[jagabo]

Either the player or the TV will convert 29.97 fps or 23.976 fps to the TV's native refresh rate (usually 60 Hz). Using 23.976 fps progressive (rather than 29.97 fps interlaced) will get you better image quality. Because interlaced encoding is inherently borked, and fewer frames per second lets you spread the bitrate over a smaller number of frames.