Uggh. Most 120Hz sets already make movies look like PBS, I don't want 200hz.
I watched the IMAX bank robbery scene from The Dark Knight the other day on a 120HZ set and it was like watching an episode of Masterpiece Theater. The camera angles looked flat, the characters looked to put it succinctly, like people in costumes. I can't even describe it properly except to say it looked like it was filmed for PBS. If too much realism can ruin one of the best modern movies, what chance do other films fare?
I think having 120 hz or 200 hz TVs is a great thing. Who knows maybe some films or games in the future will be made at 120-200 fps native. BUT the big but, lies in the Motionflow or Digital Natural Motion or Vyper Motion or Trimension DNM or whatever they want to call motion smoothing. The whole idea of having an 120 hz TV is so you can get true 24p output. As appose to 3:2 pulldown. But some computer engineers who know nothing of the artistry of filmmaking have decided that by using a fancy computer chip they can get rid of the age old motion blur found in all 24fps films by creating artificial frames that never existed. Part of the cinematic magic of films over video is that films shot at 24p are naturally blurring and long pan shots are naturally stuttered. The human eyes over the past 80 years of cinema has already adapted and have come to associate 24fps stutter as being something acute to motion pictures. Who are these computer engineers to come along and change all that with motion smoothing.
What some people don't realize is that films are meant to be blurred, because that'ss the way they were originally shot. Next time you are watching a film in the theaters pay close attention to long pan shots, they are not smooth like PBS or Soap Opera, they are stuttered and that's the way we like it.
I serious hope that TV manufacturers either put an end to this whole Motion Smoothing nonsense or at least try to educate the audience about how these features are altering movies from the way they were meant to be seen. It seems every TV spec I see pushes the idea of motion smoothing as the greatest thing since sliced bread, when in fact it's a virtually useless feature that ruins feature films and really only works for live sporting events.
Anyways I hope future TV at 200 hz or whatever will come with warnings about the PBS effect of their fancy motionflow before unleashing them to the populace.
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Uggh. Most 120Hz sets already make movies look like PBS, I don't want 200hz.
I watched the IMAX bank robbery scene from The Dark Knight the other day on a 120HZ set and it was like watching an episode of Masterpiece Theater. The camera angles looked flat, the characters looked to put it succinctly, like people in costumes. I can't even describe it properly except to say it looked like it was filmed for PBS. If too much realism can ruin one of the best modern movies, what chance do other films fare?
I think having 120 hz or 200 hz TVs is a great thing. Who knows maybe some films or games in the future will be made at 120-200 fps native. BUT the big but, lies in the Motionflow or Digital Natural Motion or Vyper Motion or Trimension DNM or whatever they want to call motion smoothing.
The whole idea of having an 120 hz TV is so you can get true 24p output. As appose to 3:2 pulldown. But some computer engineers who know nothing of the artistry of filmmaking have decided that by using a fancy computer chip they can get rid of the age old motion blur found in all 24fps films by creating artificial frames that never existed. Part of the cinematic magic of films over video is that films shot at 24p are naturally blurring and long pan shots are naturally stuttered. The human eyes over the past 80 years of cinema has already adapted and have come to associate 24fps stutter as being something acute to motion pictures. Who are these computer engineers to come along and change all that with motion smoothing.
What some people don't realize is that films are meant to be blurred, because that'ss the way they were originally shot. Next time you are watching a film in the theaters pay close attention to long pan shots, they are not smooth like PBS or Soap Opera, they are stuttered and that's the way we like it.
I serious hope that TV manufacturers either put an end to this whole Motion Smoothing nonsense or at least try to educate the audience about how these features are altering movies from the way they were meant to be seen. It seems every TV spec I see pushes the idea of motion smoothing as the greatest thing since sliced bread, when in fact it's a virtually useless feature that ruins feature films and really only works for live sporting events.
Anyways I hope future TV at 200 hz or whatever will come with warnings about the PBS effect of their fancy motionflow before unleashing them to the populace.