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According to an article over at the Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming release of The Hobbit will be the catalyst that finally drives movie theaters to upgrade their projection hardware to 48 frames-per-second (fps) or better. The current theater playback technology supports 24fps, a standard that dates back to the 1920s; this, in-turn, was an upgrade from the 16fps that was common for earlier silent films. As video-game enthusiasts are keenly aware, a higher frame-rate reduces jitter and provides much smoother video playback, and that translates to a more immersive and realistic experience overall. (And for the trivia buffs among you, the move from 16fps to 24fps was necessitated by the advent of movie audio — the original 16fps film speed moved too slowly over the magnetic heads to produce quality sound playback.)

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You! Shall Not! Scroll down before looking at this LEGO recreation of The Battle of Isengard from the Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers.

First look at the Dwarf brothers Dori, Nori and Ori in The Hobbit These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be more different from each other. Dori, the oldest, spends much of his...