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HDTV is ruining my film watching experience
Posted on 6/28/11 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 6/28/11 at 7:30 pm
Well extreme HD at least. My HDTV broke yesterday, so I went and got a new one from Vizio. This is now so high def that it is ruining my film watching experience. Nothing looks real anymore and looks staged. I can tell where the lighting is coming from. Its very easy to tell models apart and I can see the makeup on the actors extremely easily. I can notice very easily where the camera is exactly on the screen and how they are positioning the scene around it. I actually feel like I'm on set, and I don't think that is a good thing. It keeps me from being immersed in the film. Channel flipping and all the films look so good that they look like shite, if that makes sense. Granted I can see how awesome this will likely be for sports, but as far as TV shows and movies are concerned, I find extreme HD highly overrated.
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Posted on 6/28/11 at 7:34 pm to OMLandshark
wait till you watch older films like Indiana jones, you can see where the glass is under the snakes 
Posted on 6/28/11 at 7:34 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 6/28/11 at 7:38 pm to OMLandshark
Do you have some form of "tru motion" or image smoothing? If so you should try turning that feature off
Posted on 6/28/11 at 8:15 pm to OMLandshark
It's probably your refresh rate.
Give it a week or so and you'll get used to it. Our Sony was like that when we bought it, and I got used to it about a week in and haven't thought about it since.
Give it a week or so and you'll get used to it. Our Sony was like that when we bought it, and I got used to it about a week in and haven't thought about it since.
Posted on 6/28/11 at 8:26 pm to OMLandshark
It used to frick with me too, but eventually I got used to it.
Posted on 6/28/11 at 8:27 pm to OMLandshark
yeah, you're going to want to make some adjustments to the factory settings
Posted on 6/28/11 at 8:51 pm to OMLandshark
I don't even notice anymore either. Took about a month.
Posted on 6/28/11 at 11:15 pm to OMLandshark
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I find extreme HD highly overrated.
I find even regular HD overrated but I'm a rebel about those things.
Posted on 6/29/11 at 12:30 am to OMLandshark
You probably have too high of hertz like 120 or so. It looks absolutely AWFUL for anything filmed/staged. Films and shows wee not made to be viewed in such clarity. It's only good for sports and such.
Try turning off all the motion crap and even see if you can get that thing to the lower hertz refresh rate. I refuse to buy any TV with that high refresh rate cause it looks so damn terrible.
Try turning off all the motion crap and even see if you can get that thing to the lower hertz refresh rate. I refuse to buy any TV with that high refresh rate cause it looks so damn terrible.
Posted on 6/29/11 at 12:39 am to OMLandshark
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HDTV is ruining my film watching experience
I used to say the same thing about ESPN... but that's just because I had never realized before how ugly Linda Cohn was. HDTV wasn't the best thing to come along for her career.
Posted on 6/29/11 at 1:50 am to OMLandshark
It's a setting or feature your TV has that's making it look like that. Mess around with it. You should be able to change it.
Posted on 6/29/11 at 8:20 am to OMLandshark
What I notice is how shitty standard def looks in comparison.
Posted on 6/29/11 at 8:00 pm to OMLandshark
5 or so years ago when I was researching HDTVs, I did a lot of reading on AVS forum. Even back then (before higher Hz LCDs) they did a lot of posting about changing the settings on them to make the HDTV picture more film-like.
They might/likely have some recommended settings for the exact model TV you have.
They might/likely have some recommended settings for the exact model TV you have.
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