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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #560 on: December 16, 2010, 09:15:17 PM »

Oh, it's not a "problem" in the traditional sense in that it's unintentional.  They mean for the video to look like shit.  It apparently has something to do with compensating for motion on 120hz TVs or some shit.  Here's a good rundown of the "Soap Opera Effect"

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #561 on: December 16, 2010, 09:52:51 PM »

I was wondering about that stuff just the other day.  My brother got a new TV that has that shit enabled and it was painful watching The Tuxedo, unlike watching The Tuxedo in any other capacity.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #562 on: December 17, 2010, 05:08:48 PM »

THIS IS AS GOOD A PLACE AS ANY I GUESS

Check out what I got guys:



The CD is for size comparison. That little box behind it is an HD media player. USB goes in one end, HDMI goes out the other. I wuvs it. :cake:
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #563 on: December 17, 2010, 05:16:15 PM »

Oh, the motion interpolation thing is because stores are constantly running their HDTVs in Game Mode, because their biggest customers are sport enthusiasts.  Basically, whenever a sporting event (or video game, or rendered movie) is playing, the thing looks *exceptionally* smooth.  Live TV and movies, not so much.  I think the big chain shops are smartening up about this a little which is why all of a sudden they all seem to be huge Dreamworks fans, and why Monsters vs. Aliens suddenly has a framerate that would Yuji Naka pop his monocle.

It works the same way at home: if your TV has a Game Mode, make sure you turn that off once you stop playing games.  Which you probably want to anyway since most TVs that aren't optimized for that tend to drop the picture quality to compensate for the extra processing demand.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #564 on: December 18, 2010, 10:56:52 PM »

blah blah blah game mode

Oh God I was in a Sears that did this with I, Robot.   :barf:

A lot of newer TVs have a Film Mode too that'll just throttle the FPS down to 24 so you don't have to deal with any of this shit.  I'm gonna make sure the next one I get has this.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #565 on: December 19, 2010, 12:30:06 AM »

Hey, so apparently this isn't just limited to TVs on display at Best Buy or Fry's or wherever.  Now I've seen what both Tron and Harry Potter would look like as Saturday afternoon soap operas.

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #566 on: January 05, 2011, 03:50:01 PM »

Dead Snow is a ridiculous zombie movie and I recommend watching it.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #567 on: January 05, 2011, 05:54:36 PM »

I Think We're Alone Now is a documentary.

It suuuuure is.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #568 on: January 05, 2011, 06:03:48 PM »

Yeah, Dead Snow was pretty great and this comes from someone with no love of Zombies.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #569 on: January 05, 2011, 07:49:26 PM »

Somehow I do not believe that statement as it is written.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #570 on: January 07, 2011, 12:28:05 PM »

Oh, it's not a "problem" in the traditional sense in that it's unintentional.  They mean for the video to look like shit.  It apparently has something to do with compensating for motion on 120hz TVs or some shit.  Here's a good rundown of the "Soap Opera Effect"
Is this what makes it look like it's moving just slightly faster than real life?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #571 on: January 07, 2011, 12:30:09 PM »

Quote
hertz is just a measurement of frequency per second

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #572 on: January 07, 2011, 10:45:26 PM »

Hertz is just a measurement of frequency, per second.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #573 on: January 08, 2011, 06:46:05 AM »

If that's a snarky answer to my question, I don't understand it.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #574 on: January 08, 2011, 07:48:16 AM »

Hertz, donut?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #575 on: January 08, 2011, 07:56:52 AM »

Thad is making fun of the stupid comment about hertz.

Brentai is :joke:

You are confused.

Buge is just making a pun.

And I'm making a dry summary of the posts since your question.


In short, yes, it's why everything looks faster and uglier than real life.

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #576 on: January 08, 2011, 10:44:37 AM »

I actually missed MCE's question completely because she's so fucking tiny.  But anyway yeah.

Before I understood the nature of optical illusion I was always really disturbed by this.  I kept wondering if I didn't somehow live in a film world and that the evening news cast was the only reality.  Playing too many vidjagames at 60 fps probably didn't help.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #578 on: January 08, 2011, 10:08:31 PM »

I get the feeling they're just intentionally keeping back the unfucked remasters of the original trilogy until demand for them reaches a boiling point, so that they can announce it with great fanfare.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #579 on: January 08, 2011, 10:13:52 PM »

I get the feeling they're just intentionally keeping back the unfucked remasters of the original trilogy until demand for them reaches a boiling point, so that they can announce it with great fanfare.

Didn't they release them on DVD a few years back?  Or are you just referring to a blu-ray release?
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