His observation suggests that higher frame rate, with different content in each frame, does achieve the soap opera look. If the interpolation is advanced enough, it may be arriving at something close to what the extra frame would have been.
Absolutely preposterous. Depth of field is a function of lens focal length, aperture, and sensor size. There is no way that Samsung's TV could in any way effect the depth of field of the original recording. If it could, then it would be a magical motherfucking TV.
You ought to watch the TV before wetting the bed over it. Go to a Best Buy and have a look.
Because as much as you clearly know about film tech more than I do, you seem to be lacking a slight amount of common sense: What's happening there is processing of a digital signal. Specifically, the TV is creating frames for you to create the illusion of smoother video. And what this effect does, is it appears to flatten the shot.
What your slashdot-worthy post overlooks is that you're speaking from your limited knowledge of film. However, in this TV, there's a feature that lets you apply this setting to just half the screen, so you can see them both, side by side, and tweak as you wish.
Just like in life, there's no amount of theoretical education than can make-up for actually being there, for actually having hands-on.
Uh, you started a debate, then got mad at people for responding in like manner. I don't understand. Go back and reread your post, it was both confrontational and of low technical quality.
It may look like trash, but--then again--so do upscaled images.