History of Zoetrope with Sony's Motionflow

December 4th, 2008

It’s 1834 and William Horner has just invented the zoetrope. Its rotating drum transforms still images into a single moving picture. As the Greek name suggests, it’s the ‘wheel of life’ (zoe ‘life’, trope ‘turn’).

Fast forward to today and Sony has introduced Motionflow technology, which intelligently adds new frames to action scenes to make them appear smoother than ever. At 200 frames a second, Motionflow 200Hz is like a fast, fluid 21st-century zoetrope.

What better way to celebrate this technology than through the creation of the BRAVIA-Drome, the most technologically advanced zoetrope in the world.