'Avatar: The Path of Water' breaks Japanese cinemas - projectors aren't ready for 48 FPS movies

The new film Avatar: The Way of Water, which grossed more than $400 million at the worldwide box office in its opening weekend,

"broke" theaters in Japan, as the equipment was not ready to broadcast the film at 48 FPS.

What is known

Not all cinemas are ready to showmovies with high frame rates. This requires modern projectors, which a number of Japanese companies did not have. In particular, United Cinemas Co., Toho Col and Tokyu Corp.

Avatar: Path of Water is available in three formats:2D 48 FPS, 3D 48 FPS and 3D 24 FPS. At the same time, the high refresh rate technology only comes into play in action scenes, while in normal scenes the frame rate drops to 24 FPS.

Japanese cinemas that reported technical problems have decided to refund money to viewers. At the same time, one of the institutions showed the film, reducing the frame rate to 24 FPS.