re: "Soap opera effect" with new tvs

I turn it on for sports. That's about it

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The Soap Opera Effect makes things look so real that they look fake. That's the best way I can describe it.

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That has never made any sense to me, sorry. Part of the problem may be that like I said earlier, I've never owned a set that is highly associated with SOE. Sony's MotionFlow (at least circa 2010, the age of my sets) has always been said to be rather mild WRT SOE, but it causes strange artifacts in various material, and that's why I don't use it (it also doesn't seem to do very much). For example, I remember a scene in one of the Men in Black movies where Tommy Lee Jones's tie briefly has some weird pixelation that doesn't occur when MotionFlow is disabled, and Spears and Munsil has a test animation that goes absolutely nuts when MotionFlow is enabled.

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And you shouldn't be having an issue on your plasma. My plasma is perfect and doesn't have this issue.

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I'm not sure what you're talking about. I gave an example earlier of what the motion interpolation improves on my plasma, but the reason I don't use it is because it causes occasional hitches in motion that stand out like a sore thumb compared to the more consistent 24 FPS motion judder.

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It stems from the LCD TVs that were not able to handle the refresh rate of movies, so manufacturers came up with this shite technology that "guesses" frames to try to trick your brain.

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Where'd you get that from? Motion interpolation was introduced to (a) try to account for the fact that the 24 FPS cinema standard is way too low a frame rate to capture motion without horrible motion judder in panning shots and whatnot, and (b) eliminate telecine judder, though this can also be done on a 120 Hz display by using 5:5 pulldown, i.e. repeating each 24p frame 5 times, but this of course leaves the inherent motion judder intact.

These motivations apply to plasmas as well. Unfortunately, the motion smoothing doesn't work well on my Panasonic ST60 as previously described, and its 96 Hz mode introduces flicker. The consensus opinion is to turn it off and tolerate the standard 60 Hz and 3:2 pulldown, which works quite well on this set. Of course, nothing is being done to help the 24 FPS motion judder, which makes me wince a little whenever I see it.

I must not be able to see it. I have no idea what this is even about.