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Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second
bonch writes "Warner Bros. aired ten minutes of footage from The Hobbit at CinemaCon, and reactions have been mixed. The problem? Peter Jackson is filming the movie at 48 frames per second, twice the industry standard 24 frames per second, lending the film a '70s era BBC-video look.' However, if the negative response from film bloggers and theater owners is any indication, the way most people will see the movie is in standard 24fps."
I am completely unable to watch video at 60 fps. I literally get nauseated and get motion sickness. Same thing with video games, I actually try and keep my frame rate as close to 30 fps as I can or I simply can't play it for more than a few minutes without starting to get ill. If The Hobbit releases in only 60 fps then I flat-out would never be able to see it, especially on a big-ass theater screen.
Every time I hear someone bitch about higher FPS video I'm seriously annoyed, I've had to deal with the damn 24 FPS jerky and/or blurry bullshit for too long people need to just adjust.
Oh, thank GOD you're here. We needed raving frothing videophile douchebags to balance out the raving frothing audiophile douchebags. We were starting to feel a bit rusty with our eye-rolling routines, glad there's someone around we can practice on.