Film
... is a craptacular 24fps.
Have you ever watched a movie on a new 120hz or 240hz TV, with the frame-interpolation feature on? Try watching a whole movie like that and really getting into it.
Film is 24fps because it is easy to get absorbed into the movie, rather than being jerked back to reality by home-video-amateur-too-real 30 or 60fps.
Alright, so I don't know if that's WHY it's 24fps, but I'm very happy with 24. Unless you've been sitting there playing a 60fps game for hours immediately before, 24fps looks smooth.
Plus, framerate has nothing to do with clarity of picture. But you are right that resolution doesn't matter so much with film, because in my experience a DVD player over component outputting 480p to a nice 720p plasma will look awesome from any reasonable distance (indeed, because of the softness of the picture).
(No longer selling copies of XP, anyone?)
Windows 7 is fantastic. Windows Vista was fine (on nice hardware) once SP1 came out. XP came out over EIGHT YEARS AGO. You can cling to the past as much as you want, but you just exemplify the GP's point. The rest of the world is moving on without you, and no, they don't care about your idealistic anti-corporate view (why don't you use Debian?). If you can't afford the 250 bucks to build a new Windows-7-capable machine, then you need to get a job and move out of your mother's basement.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman