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To everyone raising their noses at these cinema hipsters who doubt the attraction of 48fps: take care. Human perception is a fickle thing and does not always follow the logical path one might expect.

Consider the uncanny valley, where adding fidelity to an image actually reduces the perceived pleasure rather than increasing it.

In my experience, even the jump from 24fps to 30fps is enough to lose the feeling of 'magic' that people are used to in the movies. There's a reason that most non-reality, non-sitcom TV shows are filmed in 24fps rather than 30fps (the native framerate of television).

It may be that the movie industry will find a way to make movies that take advantage of the characteristics of 48fps, but it's not going to be like sticking a new video card into your rig and receiving an instant experience improvement. The fundamental way that movies present themselves (photography, scene design, set design, storytelling) will have to change.



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