Oh gee, and here i thought i clicked on 'add comment to video' and it would let me add a comment without adding a popup insisting i upgrade...

That's sarcasm, because it won't let me comment unless i upgrade. I think the creator of YouTube said it best...

Do you moan about every petty thing in life? Because this is just pathetic, absolutely ridiculous.

I moan about every petty thing that annoys me that are some of the things i actually used to enjoy doing. I'm sure if i lose both my arms you'll say I'm complaining because i can't tie my shoes anymore and how i'm complaining 'woe is me' when tying my shoes was always optional and i have to use flipflops for the rest of my life instead of using boots or normal shoes, or i have to have a permanent friend to help me...

The only difference I can tell between 30FPS and 60FPS videos is that at 720p 30FPS plays smoothly and 60FPS keeps pausing to buffer, visually I cannot discern any difference.

And also any other Google services out there like Google Docs, Google Play, Adsense and stuff. It's friggin' annoying.

With a perfect combination of good video card, CPU, RAM, and data rate, you shouldn't get the buffer pauses; but you can really only do something about three of those four things.

There's also the part where what you're watching will influence how it looks. Our eyes are devious little things, and in certain circumstances images will "stick" for far longer than they're displayed - that may be part of where that urban legend about "people can't see faster than _x_ FPS" came from. So maybe watch a couple other videos in 60fps, if you haven't already. You might see a difference.

[url=Of course, if you're watching it on an old enough monitor that can't refresh at 60Hz then it's all a moot point. I know 50Hz was a standard refresh rate for quite some time, though I don't offhand know when that went out of vogue.][/url]

The same issue as watching it at walmart then. It really comes down to what the graphical card can handle then. Most modern cards do mp4 decoding meaning the buffering is highly limited based on the player not expecting to be pushing something like 3MB a second through it's pipeline when they programmed it and said 'you know, 1Meg is probably more than enough'; And they were right...

Honestly i'm not sure if there was a difference since i watched a 60fps video on my monitor in the main room which might be locked at 30fps while saying it's 60hz. When i say that i mean i've seen video from our players on his TV, then i've seen it on other PS3's on other TV's and they look weird... Weird as in not smooth. If that's what 60fps is i'd rather not, but it's probably more like 24*3 then drop a few frames every so often or right before key frames to try and keep the timing sort-of right (Because film isn't recorded at useful power of 2's)... Of course neither is the energy hertz, being 60 rather than say 64.

Honestly my equipment works, and if i can only play games at 30fps for now i'll take it because it doesn't strain my brain and it doesn't strain my wallet for more hardware that i got fairly [s]cheaply[/s] inexpensively. yeah 60fps is probably smoother but weigh the pros and cons...

Note: If i seem partially snarky or something, probably my attitude is saturated from watching a dozen hours of a type of review from someone who's snarky yet correct on his gaming videos. That will eventually go away.

I wonder how many hundreds/thousands i'd have to pay vs say the $0 i'd pay by sticking to 30fps...

I liked Chrome a lot, but you could get mindblowed if you open the task manager and see how much resources it uses... I switched to Opera/Firefox, but Google still wants to force me to use their hog.

I was referring to watching youtube videos, twice the frames requires twice the bandwidth and my connection cannot keep up. If I download the video there are no interruptions, and I have watched several comparison videos, but with my eyesight 30FPS and 60 FPS are still indistinguishable.

Did not know that.

Do you mean when Chrome is installed or when Chrome is in use?

Either way there is reason why its a hog I take it?

Every time you turn on your computer Chrome processes are initiated in the background automatically and thus hogging memory even if you're not using the browser. Also when you are using the browser and then close it, the processes for it continue to run unlike Firefox which ends all processes when it is exited. You have to manually right click on the icon in the task bar to completely exit Chrome or with the command: taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe

Here is some more info on Chrome's multiple processes architecture:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95672?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkY3CPswPPA

If you can't tell the difference, something is wrong. 30 FPS is playable, sure. But 60 FPS smoothness out every movement. Everything becomes so much more fluid. It's glorious.

When I exit Chrome, all the processes quit.

By default it isn't so though, you have to uncheck the option "Let google chrome run in the background" and after that it works as you mentioned. :)