Sorry to drag on this question, but can someone who knows please tell me if movies are recorded onto blu-ray/hddvd at exactly 24.000 frames per second? I keep stumbling across message boards in my google searching where people say things like "it has to output it at 23.976 because that's the only thing your television understands" even when they're talking about high definition teleivions. Then there's also that 23.98 framerate I keep hearing about. Please, someone just clear this up for me. I haven't gotten into either format yet because I don't own an hdtv, although I do own a 1024by768 4:3 monitor with both vga and dvi if it makes any difference (don't know if it would be possible to hook up a set top device to this). So yea, right now I can't watch 16:9 video in anything higher than 1024 by 576, however the big appeal to me about these new high definition formats hasn't been the resolution but the fact that it bypasses the existing ntsc and pal systems, allowing us to watch our movies at their exact framerate (at least that's what I've been led to believe). If someone could clear this up I'd greatly appreciate it.
EDIT: yea sorry for all that. I did some digging and I'm now almost totally positive it's exactly 24.000 frames per second for both hddvd and blu-ray. I stumbled upon a forum where people were talking about "cadence" which is something I've heard brought up around here before.