So I hear a lot of people saying that they really enjoyed the higher frame rate during the action scenes, but not so much during the quiet scenes. Would it be feasible for directors to switch between the frame rates as needed? For action scenes, let it roll at 48fps but for all other scenes, simply chop out half the frames and display one duplicate frame per frame to simulate 24fps. I wonder if the transition would be too jolting.. perhaps you could ease into it by ratcheting down the frame rate over a period of a few seconds. At any rate, it seems like you might get the best of both worlds.
I watched some of King Kong on an HDTV that does the interpolated 48fps. It switched between 48 and 24 fps depending on scene when it could. The switching was quite irritating, going from very smooth motion to now-apparent jittery "normal" motion. Jolting indeed.
This is exactly what Freddie Wong is talking about doing for Season 2 of VGHS (a web series) - HFR for the "video game" scenes and regular for the rest of them. I think it will work very well.
