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Originally Posted by raygendreau
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Good article, it pretty much hits the nail on the head. I'm still surprised when people say they don't notice the odd look of HFR; I wonder if they're the same people that leave frame interpolation on their displays and don't notice anything strange.
I had wanted to bring up the idea of variable frame rates but I don't know enough about the medium so I assumed it would be stupid to mention it, but I'm glad to read it is something that can be done and that it is being developed. I think those types of innovations will be the key - high frame rates during fast motion and slower frame rates when there is less, like at the beginning of the Hobbit - so it won't end up looking strangely sped-up in the slower parts. The only other way I could think of to offset that would be for the actors to slow down their movements or something, but that would probably look strange as well. I'm a bit concerned about the film-look of movies going away though; film grain and all being replaced by a hyper-clear reality - is that really the point of a movie?
Anyway it sounds like there may still be hope for each side to get their way: the tech-savvy and the artistic preservationists both.