CGI should be 1080p/60? Is Ice Age 1 or 2 a 30p, 60p, or 60i BD?

[CZroe]

Pixar once showed how they digitally reformatted a scene from "A Bug's Life" to fit both 4:3 and 16:9 without pan & scanning. For movies in the digital realm, this kind of thing is possible. Similarly, why not render additional frames of a CGI movie to match home display refresh rates?

Technically, 1080i/60 has much more detail than 1080p/24, "per second," just not more detail "per field" (identical detail per-frame). 1080i/60 ends up dwelling on the source's 24p frames long enough to display all the 1080p detail and then some in the process of 3:2 pulldown, so even 1080i would benefit from such remastering.

I was walking through Fry's Electronics in January and noticed that Ice Age 1 or 2 (I never watched either so I wouldn't know) on display looked incredibly smooth. The difference was immediately noticeable, as I spotted it from the corner of my eye. My brother messed around with the remote and got the PLAYER, not the television, to report that it was running at 60hz (well, 59.7hz or whatever). Is it possible that it was reporting the hz after pull-down and I was just seeing things or was it truly 60hz?

Sure, most movies are still filmed on film at a rate of 24FPS, but are the new digital cameras limited to the same rate? I doubt that because television still uses 60i. None of that matters for CGI movies though, so the next question is: are the new digital cinema's limited to 24p? I can't see why they would be unless the sheer resolution makes it difficult or impossible. If not, even theatrical movies should start shedding their old 24FPS limitation, though there would still be a 24p version on film for older screens.

I would absolutely love to see Ratatouille or Cars in 1080p/60.