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There are some televisions that have the ability to interpolate a 24fps format and produce an apparent higher frame rate. Watching sports on these televisions is great, but I tried watching Iron Man on one and it made it look like an after school special. I believe this is colloquially know as the 'soap opera effect'.

Google for 'samsung soap opera effect'.



My new TV does that - it came with the mode enabled, and when I watched an HD movie off Netflix, it seemed very odd and low-budget - this soap opera effect - until I realized what was going on with a second movie doing the same thing. It's definitely jarring and everything looks, ironically, like it was shot with cheap cameras.


Have you tried getting used to it? Does the effect go away with time or is it forever burned in your brain?


I watch everything like this on my Samsung television (this is a 2009 model so I assumed nearly all new TVs have interpolation+high refresh rate.) My favorite is watching old movies on bluray, combined with this it is like you are actually there.




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