Telecine is an important aspect of the film industry that has made movie watching possible throughout the years. With the rising popularity of TV in the 1950s, telecine began when networks decided to make silver-screen-originated material available on television.
Telecine works when studios add additional frames to the picture to increase the frame rate. This enables the film to play smoothly on a TV or computer screen.
In 2010, telecine film may be hard-telecined or soft-telecined. If a movie is hard-telecined, it means the video footage is stored on the DVD at the playback frame rate. If a movie is soft-telecined, it is stored on the DVD disc at the original format with special flags inserted into the MPEG-2 video stream. Inverse telecine is when this process is reversed with the help of editing tools.
According to movie2video.com, using the Telecine method can be doable from home with the help of a second hand projector. Because the image is projected straight onto an electronic device, it converts a picture into an electronic signal.
The term "telecine" also refers to a form or pirating, in which a movie is copied illegally.