Forty-eight frames per second, a measurement that’s meaningless to most of us–including me.  I don’t quite understand how it’s supposedly such a game changer–yet to men like Peter Jackson, Douglas Trumball or James Cameron, it represents the future of movies.  Currently, films are shown at 24 fps, and increasing the frame rate will supposedly create a truer, more vivid image.

Though that is not what everyone thinks because when Jackson showed an excerpt of his film, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” at CinemaCon in Las Vegas not every one was impressed by the visuals brought about by the increased frame rate.

The decription of the footage shown reminded me when I was watching my mother’s HD flatscreen TV.  The image presented were so sharp, so clear that it made just about everything that came on look like a play (in an odd note, it even made the FX in “Tron: Legacy” a bit more obvious and green-screeny).

I can’t speak for other people, but if that’s the way film in 48 fps looks, I am not sure that I would be willing to play premium prices to see it.

You can find more information about frame rates here.