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Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014
they're pretty much the purest example of a gimmick that's worse than useless

they'll probably become ubiquitous within a couple years

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Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

Justin Tyme posted:

I don't understand the logic behind curved TVs, like curving the screen is the poo poo cheap ghetto movie theaters (looking at you Carmike) do to make small-rear end theaters accommodate BIG CINEMATIC SCREENS.

they literally just ran out of things to do with TVs to make them "better" so they resorted to this clown poo poo and hoped no one would call their bluff

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

EightBit posted:

It's the inability to maintain that appearance of smoothness between small movements and larger movements that create motion blur that truly ruins frame rate interpolation. It goes from a creepy appearance of smoothness that sets off the uncanny valley effect, to juddering because the interpolation algorithm can't connect the motion blur between frames. Ugh.

Fortunately, I can describe the effect to my friends well enough that they can see it, then become bothered by it and disable it.

the reason they implemented that feature is because LCDs take slightly too long to switch the output of their pixels and it causes artificial motion blur.

i have a pretty old LCD TV and the motion blur is so bad that any movie with action is virtually unwatchable, so i just turn on motion interpolation to its lowest setting. the problem is that it still looks like poo poo in a different way, but at least i can see what's going on.

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

Concerned Citizen posted:

frame interpolation isn't an improvement. if the original is filmed at 32 frames per second, sliding in 200 more identical frames makes it look worse.

he was talking about poo poo that was filmed with HFR

and it's true that people mostly only think it looks bad because of film historical reasons.

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