"Soap opera effect" with new tvs

I don't know why this bothers people. Does it look "too real" or something?

And it has to do with refresh rate I think. What's your TV?

I think the setting is called Auto Motion on Samsung tvs. Turn it off.

this is easy to get of...

it's in the settings and also sometimes a firmware update..

but yeah google your tv and soap box and you should find exactly where and how to turn it off..

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I mean when you switch to 60 to 120 Hz its looks a lot different.

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It doesn't have to, though. 120Hz does not increase the frame rate of broadcast or film. The motion interpolation setting has nothing to do with the difference between 60, 120, and 240 hz TVs.

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All motion enhancement on LED tv's needs to go away. I turn mine off and it's fine.

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It was probably invented primarily to sell 120Hz TVs because it's tough to do a side-by-side comparison any other way. Interpolation will look beautiful in fast-panning stock video of nature shots, or even sports. But get the TV home and try to watch the Avengers or some shite with interpolation enabled and you'll feel like you're watching a behind-the-scenes special.

It's all marketing bullshite

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I see it on friends' tvs all the time. They think I'm just seeing things when I tell them it looks strange. But it looks horrible to me.

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What exactly do you see? "Too smooth" or "looks like video" doesn't mean anything to me. Smooth is good! Real life is not stuttering 24 FPS. I've only had Sony LCDs, which have been said to have "minimal soap opera effect" and Panasonic plasmas. I've turned off the motion enhancers due to artifacts like little lightning flashes or distortions in small areas on the Sony and hitches in motion on the plasma. That said, there is a test video on Spears and Munsil 2nd edition of a chick swinging back and forth in a mesh hammock, and it looks MUCH better with interpolation on the plasma; it's so much smoother and real-looking, while the raw footage is a stuttering mess that's hard to watch. Unfortunately, the technology makes other things worse, so I don't use it.

Just turn it off

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Just pick up their remote and go to the menu and turn that crap off. They should thank you.

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I literally do this at other people's houses. I'm an a-hole.
But other people are stupid.

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I literally do this at other people's houses. I'm an a-hole.
But other people are stupid.

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Don't sell yourself short. You're an Aggie, which also makes you stupid, too.

But I'll join you in the a-hole club. My extended familes and friends used to hide the remotes from me, I was such a snob about their pictures. Then I discovered that my Note 3 has IR and I downloaded a remote control app called Smart Remote. Now, I frick with everybody's televisions, especially those in Wal Mart and Best Buy! They turn on that soap opera crap and the stupid kids that work there, who think they know shite from shinola, walk around and tell old people and gullible millenials how awesome the picture looks when it looks like crap.

Just turn off the setting. You should look up some calibration settings for your model while you're at it cause stock display settings are set to have the television stand out on a show floor. Looks like shite in the home.