Personally I welcome this push towards higher frame rates. A higher frame rate means smoother images, means more realistic footage, means more immersive experience.
I don't understand some of the arguments objecting to 48fps. Check this one for example:
Some dude on Gizmodo wrote:The problem with increasing frame rates is that our brains have been trained our whole lives to interpret images at 24fps as movies aka fiction and things at higher frames such as 60i or 30p as real like news, reality tv, etc. ... It is going to be a tough sell to convince people that have been watching movies at 24fps their whole lives that this new footage is "better" because the motion is smoother. I understand why Cameron wants to do it, but I think it is just going to distract me the whole movie.
Basically what this person is saying is that he has been brainwashed to connect 24fps with cinema and 60fps with camcorders. To me that is like some granny not wanting to use an iPhone because she's not used to a touch screen. Sure, I understand, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world needs to remain in the stone age, right?
I think 48fps will be great for movies that want to increase the immersiveness of movies, such as 3D-films like Avatar 2, but also films like The Hurt Locker where you want it to feel *real*.
I'm very curious what your opinion about this is.