High Frame Rate Blu Ray?

[ronjones]

Originally Posted by joie

Is 3D is being displayed at 48 fps?
I'd guess that it is 24 fps, alternating frames for one eye with frames for the other eye, which makes the effective frame rate 12 fps, but the brain's "post processing" makes it seem like 24 fps.

First no one does 12 Hz per eye. When we talk about Blu-Ray Discs doing 1080p/24 Hz for 2D or 3D that means 24Hz for each eye. Blu-ray records both the right and left images of a 3D image into the same "super frame" at 24 Hz using "frame packing" encoding, as defined by the HDMI 1.4b standard. The Hobbit when shown in theaters advertising RealD (3D) HFR is displaying it at 48 Hz to each eye (that's why its called High Frame Rate). Even though most of the theaters with HFR compatible digital projectors are using projectors with 4K resolution the digital cinema input signal standard limits the 3D resolution to only 2K so it appears that what you are seeing in these theater is native 2K/48Hz 3D video that has been upscaled by the projector to 4K resolution for display.

[TheHighRoller]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

It will be interesting to see how they release this movie on home video.

This sums up how I feel about a home media release for The Hobbit (which I still have yet to see).

[AlanUK]

After reading through the posts in this thread i still don't understand why this film cannot be played at a higher frame rate, like the OP said the PS3 can output games & these can be displayed on everyone's TV set, the output from the PS3 will be just the same ones & zeros like there would be for either a game or a film, the TV doesn't know the difference it just displays what is sent to it.

What happens when i take a game disc out of my PS3 & then put in a film disc, why can the TV not display the same information ?

[joenostalgia23]

Originally Posted by AlanUK

After reading through the posts in this thread i still don't understand why this film cannot be played at a higher frame rate, like the OP said the PS3 can output games & these can be displayed on everyone's TV set, the output from the PS3 will be just the same ones & zeros like there would be for either a game or a film, the TV doesn't know the difference it just displays what is sent to it.

What happens when i take a game disc out of my PS3 & then put in a film disc, why can the TV not display the same information ?

The game is a game. The movie is a movie.
It sounds weird, but that's how it is.

Also the PS3 is usually outputting 720p @ 30 or 60 fps. But never 1080p @ 48 fps.
Studios will never try to sell a 720p Blu-ray and there's no way to create a 720p @ 48fps BD right now anyways, and no one's willing to create new BD standards when we've already begun talking about 4K. It took long enough to get people to buy 3D BD, but right now there is literally only one 48 fps movie in existence.