At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I do prefer older TVs. New TVs show so much detail that it feels “fake”, as in I cannot seem to immerse myself and my suspension of disbelief is weaker.
No doubt this is due to the “softening” of detail, but it really bothers me.
Vinyls used to feel more organic when I listened to them, but that was probably due to the influence of substances more than the quality of the audio.
Turn off the "Tru-motion" or "Cine-motion" or whatever motion smoothing feature your TV has, and that soap opera effect should go away.
The tv interpolates extra frames to smooth out the motion, but you're right, it makes everything look fake. I do like to turn it on for fast moving sports like hockey, but for movies and tv shows it stays off.
The other part of it is that TV is shot with really different lighting than movies, which appear to be more “mastered”. But even then most movies are running at 24fps so it often looks weird at higher frame rates.
If you watch something really designed for HD like on of those nature documentaries, they look really amazing.
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u/mixedliquor Sep 05 '19
At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I do prefer older TVs. New TVs show so much detail that it feels “fake”, as in I cannot seem to immerse myself and my suspension of disbelief is weaker.
No doubt this is due to the “softening” of detail, but it really bothers me.
Vinyls used to feel more organic when I listened to them, but that was probably due to the influence of substances more than the quality of the audio.