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post #16 of 22
7/31/10 at 4:11am
It is quite odd but watching Blue Ray on my friend's nice LED makes movies look bad IMO...like watching Inglourious Basterds, it was as if everything was too clear and focused so that they whole movie looked rather amateurish. Rather frustrating, I thought. Same thing went with District 9 (the effects looked so fake) but the documentary style factor made the "too clear" problem seem not as bad.
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post #17 of 22
7/31/10 at 5:09am
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It is quite odd but watching Blue Ray on my friend's nice LED makes movies look bad IMO...like watching Inglourious Basterds, it was as if everything was too clear and focused so that they whole movie looked rather amateurish. Rather frustrating, I thought. Same thing went with District 9 (the effects looked so fake) but the documentary style factor made the "too clear" problem seem not as bad.

So Inglourious Basterds was so clear that you almost felt there?
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post #18 of 22
7/31/10 at 2:02pm
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It is quite odd but watching Blue Ray on my friend's nice LED makes movies look bad IMO...like watching Inglourious Basterds, it was as if everything was too clear and focused so that they whole movie looked rather amateurish. Rather frustrating, I thought. Same thing went with District 9 (the effects looked so fake) but the documentary style factor made the "too clear" problem seem not as bad.

What you're describing is known as the "soap opera affect" or SOA. It's a result of motion interpolation. The problem is that your friend's LED is either 120 Hz or 240 Hz and you were watching their TV with motion interpolation turned on. Your friend needs to go into his picture settings and either shut motion interpolation off or adjust it to a setting that will not create the dreaded SOA. I have a new 120 Hz Samsung LCD HDTV and my Auto Motion Plus (Samsung's version of motion interpolation) is set to "clear" and avoids this issue entirely. There are people who will tell you they like the SOA. Those people are stupid and/or weird.

Here is a better article it and here is wiki's entry explaining it.
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post #19 of 22
7/31/10 at 2:38pm
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So Inglourious Basterds was so clear that you almost felt there?

this will be great for porn.
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post #20 of 22
7/31/10 at 4:18pm
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What you're describing is known as the "soap opera affect" or SOA. It's a result of motion interpolation. The problem is that your friend's LED is either 120 Hz or 240 Hz and you were watching their TV with motion interpolation turned on. Your friend needs to go into his picture settings and either shut motion interpolation off or adjust it to a setting that will not create the dreaded SOA. I have a new 120 Hz Samsung LCD HDTV and my Auto Motion Plus (Samsung's version of motion interpolation) is set to "clear" and avoids this issue entirely. There are people who will tell you they like the SOA. Those people are stupid and/or weird.

Here is a better article it and here is wiki's entry explaining it.

+1
Motion interpolation looks like crap in anything but sports.
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post #21 of 22
7/31/10 at 4:57pm
Ah thank you very much. Yeah it was definitely the soap opera effect.
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post #22 of 22
7/31/10 at 6:29pm
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Personally I will never watch a movie if I don't have time to get through it. The instances where I'm unexpectedly interrupted in the middle of movie-watching are few and far between. I never really made use of the DVD feature when I was using DVDs.
This. If I decide to watch a movie, it means I will watch it completely, even if it means loosing some hours of sleep.

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this will be great for porn.
Yeah, makes it like a club in real life! You see all these hot chics but someone else is going to shagg them *scnr*
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