What are your unpopular opinions?
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Grahamdub said:
slopes said:
One that i always get shouted down for....
I never thought Rick Mayall was a comedy genius.
I always thought Ade Edmondson was funnier. I never thought Rick Mayall was a comedy genius.
My claim to fame is that Rik Mayall went to the dentist my Mother was the receptionist for.
s on PH.Dr Jekyll said:
HD TV Looks exactly like ordinary TV. Except on the 60" screens in John Lewis for some strange reason.
HDTV also looks absolutely appalling with interpolation turned on, and turning it off is always buried in menus. I have to bite my tongue when someone shows me their super expensive TV and says "look how great the picture is!" when in reality it's making Interstellar look like an episode of Red Dwarf.j_4m said:
Dr Jekyll said:
HD TV Looks exactly like ordinary TV. Except on the 60" screens in John Lewis for some strange reason.
HDTV also looks absolutely appalling with interpolation turned on, and turning it off is always buried in menus. I have to bite my tongue when someone shows me their super expensive TV and says "look how great the picture is!" when in reality it's making Interstellar look like an episode of Red Dwarf.AstonZagato said:
j_4m said:
Dr Jekyll said:
HD TV Looks exactly like ordinary TV. Except on the 60" screens in John Lewis for some strange reason.
HDTV also looks absolutely appalling with interpolation turned on, and turning it off is always buried in menus. I have to bite my tongue when someone shows me their super expensive TV and says "look how great the picture is!" when in reality it's making Interstellar look like an episode of Red Dwarf.Dr Jekyll said:
HD TV Looks exactly like ordinary TV. Except on the 60" screens in John Lewis for some strange reason.
It’s the material being fed through the screen that makes the difference.A standard definition signal going to an HD TV will often look worse than the same signal going to an SD TV. An HDTV showing HD material should almost always look better than anything an SD set can produce.
What you’ll be seeing in John Lewis is actually 4K TVs (4 times the definition of HD) playing reference demos especially designed to make the TV look good. In reality, most 4K content looks nowhere near as good as these demos, but some does, and the volume of quality releases should hopefully improve.
AstonZagato said:
I've heard this. Can you explain a bit more. I find some films look like "cheap" soaps.
Dive into the menus and turn off anything the relates to ‘motion settings’.That should remove the ‘soap opera effect’ that you are experiencing. It might introduce some judder, which is one of the problems the motion settings were designed to solve, but probably won’t.
I always switch these off now, and rarely see any problems.
It’s also worth playing with the Sharpness setting to see if you can get an improvement. On some models this is set very high as a default, and can often just introduce noise distortion into the picture, making it look less sharp as a result.
AstonZagato said:
I've heard this. Can you explain a bit more. I find some films look like "cheap" soaps.
Modern TVs have an option to interpolate between frames to smooth out the picture and remove motion blur, so a film shot at 24 frames per second will have quite a lot of artificial frames inserted by the TV's software.Movies have always been shot at 24fps by convention, soaps and so on were shot on the newer video formats and had a higher framerate of 60. Even though everything is pretty much digital these days films are still made at 24fps and have much more extensive and expensive colour grading, annoyingly modern HDTVs remove all of this processing and give you something that looks like it was shot on Betamax.
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