Cameron wants to shoot the Avatar sequels at 60p, which makes me wonder just how the hell they'll make a 24p version since you can't evenly extract 24 from 60. He did say that he might just go with 48, though.

With that first Hobbit movie, I remember the first few minutes being very jarring in the theater at 48p. The opening logos looked like a video game! Bilbo walking around his house looked sped-up! I'll reiterate: even in the 24-frame version, the altered shutter speed makes everything look choppy and unnatural.

The tradeoff, however, was that the first wide shot of the inside of Erebor literally took my breath away in 48p. Like, I gasped and teared up. This is what Doug Trumbull was talking about with his Showscan experiments.

I should also say, and maybe it's just me, but the 48p digital Imax presentations of the first two Hobbit movies have probably been the brightest 3D presentations I've seen so far. I don't know if the increased framerate has something to do with that, but there it is.