Movies - "Soap Opera Effect" But does anyone have any tips for reducing the "Soap Opera Effect" on movies?
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Wow, I can't believe it's been two months and you haven't gotten an answer for this yet. By Soap Opera effect, I'm assuming that you mean that it takes on a camcorder-ish/birthday party looking feel. In my house, we call this the PBS effect. Basically, what's happening is the Auto Motion 120Hz option is taking the original source material filmed at 24 fps and is artifically adding in additional frames between the existing frames which kicks the fps closer to 29.97, which is standard video. The positive side effect of this is that it makes motion much less blurry so even the fastest movements are crisp and clear (great for sports). The downside is that it can make even the most epic big budget movies (I died laughing when watching Lord of the Rings like that) look like amateur stageplays on a fake set. Here's the good news though. You can turn it on and off under Picture settings whenever you like. Turn it on for Sports, games and sitcoms. Turn it off for movies.
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It sounds like you have the AutoMotion Plus 120Hz on all the time. This feature gives movies a "lifelike" feel and takes some definite getting used to. It works best for me when watching a blu-ray disk. I actually feel its annoying when NOT watching anything blu-ray.To turn the 120Hz feature off, go to your TV menu -> Picture -> Scroll to "AutoMotion Plus 120Hz" and set it to "Off". I think you'll enjoy your 1080i picture in a more traditional fashion with this off.
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When you bring up the menu, fast forward, etc, curser over to the gear on the right and select it. You can remove the captioning. Sadly, you have to do this each time you watch a movie. They may eventually update it to no captions by default, just not yet...
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You definitely do not want to purchase this camera for the film effect that it does. It has a lot of control over the amount of stutter effect (function is called "FLASH"), but you have to re-set it every time you turn the power off which can be a real nuisance. There is also a "Movie" effect but I feel that it adds too much stutter.
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I don't know why this happens but it happened to me too! It was such a waste of film! Maybe the film was bad I'm not sure.
360969
yes, the DE dramatically improves dialog, so we now rarely miss a word in movies, even those with lots of background noise or music.Suggest you turn the DE off, however, to fully appreciate music without vocals.
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Lisa, I haven't actually seen the "soap opera" effect come up in normal HD tv yet, but I did see some of it show up in 3D. To be honest, I haven't had time to tinker yet...so, I will do my best to let you know when I have the time to research it.
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The so called "soap opera" effect is simply a result of high refresh rate combined with high resolution. Its not too bad on this projector at all... no way to disable it that I know of.. Its not nearly as noticeable as say a full 1080P LED 240Hz TV. Either way .. in my humble opinion the soap opera look is something that I noticed on my LED TV at first and within 2-3 months after I bought, It was something I completely stopped noticing.
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You can turn off what's called "Motion Eye Care" for each input in the advanced settings of each input. This gets rid of the "soap opera" effect. I have this turned off on ALL my inputs, I do not care for it at all. After turning it off, the picture looks simply amazing! I love this TV and so do people who come over to watch movies with us. I hope that helps. ~Steve~
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You can zoom in, and sometimes that helps. It really depends on the movie. Sometimes the zoom looks weird, and other times it looks really good. It's just trial and error.
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Depending on the source material it can either be difficult or easy to perceive the 3D (aka "surround sound") effect. I don't notice it very much when watching the news (mostly dialog) but it is quite apparent when watching a movie.
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LOL, 'fake' is a great term to describe it. Don't return it, it's fine. What you're seeing is sometimes referred to as SOE, or the "Soap-Opera-Effect" because it looks like you're watching some cheaply produced daytime television. It has to do with the way the source material was recorded, how it maps to the refresh rate of your new TV, interpolation and other large words you don't care about. What you do care about is pressing the green Menu button on your remote, selecting the first option 'Picture' and then 'Picture Options' about 9 items down. In this menu you want to change the feature called "Auto Motion Plus" from 'Standard' to 'Clear.' Walter and friends should look a little less fake now. I never understood why Samsung sets it that way by default, it drives me nuts!
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I think the "blooming" issue is overblown. I hardly notice it at all...even with white credits on a completely black background. Who reads the credits anyway? If that's all the "experts" can find to complain about...that says a lot about this TV.
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I made setting adjustments, updated the firmware and have since watched scenes with dark backgrounds and it seems to have gone away? Don't know why for sure but so far, so good. Thought the same. Perhaps it is a HDMI cable issue but was seeing it both on tv broadcasts as well as DVD so felt it must have been related to some sort of setting? Don't think both of my HDMI cables would have been bad! Thanks.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean. But if you turn it off it will save your spot in a movie. Even if you take it out and put the same one back in.
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Go to menu on your remote, then to picture settings, go down to advanced picture settings and click on that, go down to cinema mode, then use the right and left arrows to choose between video and film effect. I believe you want it on film effect such as I have to get rid of the soap opera effect. Hope that helps!
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Picture & color quality are excellent. Only complaint is that, at least on the 65-in model, you can't turn off "motion interpolation" aka "Smooth motion" aka "soap opera effect". It's on full-blast on the 65-in.