we aren't wild.
mostly
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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le nubian - Jul 16, 2012 5:40:55 am PDT #20498 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
bon bon - Jul 16, 2012 5:46:19 am PDT #20499 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It's motion interpolation. Here are how various tv brands call it: [link]
Jon B. - Jul 16, 2012 6:26:41 am PDT #20500 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Samsung calls it "Auto Motion Plus 120 Hz". You're saying there's a way to disable it?
§ ita § - Jul 16, 2012 6:28:11 am PDT #20501 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What Samsung do you have Jon? My set actually has a demo setting where you can see the difference between this magic setting on and off (imperceptible to me). I can see where that is later.
Jon B. - Jul 16, 2012 6:45:55 am PDT #20502 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yeah, I should've checked before posting. I've got that same demo setting and I just tried it. I'm not 100% convinced that's the problem, but it could be. I've disabled the Auto Motion Plus for now and will try it some more later on. Thanks!
Jon B. - Jul 16, 2012 7:05:20 am PDT #20503 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
bon bon -- We are not alone: [link]
§ ita § - Jul 16, 2012 7:23:45 am PDT #20504 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You're definitely not alone--I complained about it when I first upgraded my TV to 1080 (and, I think, when I first went to HD) that everything looked like soap operas, and all the corners were lit and depth of field seemed entirely blown to hell, since everything was clearly visible.
The acclimation the first time round wasn't so bad, but for a while this time round I thought quasi-seriously about downgrading back to the TV that was still there, unplugged, in my living room. Things that were meant to be 1080 looked pretty good (excellent, even, maybe), but DVDs of stuff like La Femme Nikita--like I was watching on a computer whose video driver settings were out of whack, and then DVD of Supernatural were popping when they needed to be lurking.
And then, one day, I looked at my screen and I loved my boys and everything was okay. Bon was relegated to the arena of people who were on crack, and all's good with the world.
Tom Scola - Jul 16, 2012 7:34:47 am PDT #20505 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
When I got my HDTV, it took me about six months before I stopped obsessing about everyone’s pores.
§ ita § - Jul 16, 2012 7:47:52 am PDT #20506 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I still have waves of "how the fuck do the Winchesters not look even a little bit like ass under this microscope". But I'm battling gallantly through this.
Gris - Jul 16, 2012 7:50:25 am PDT #20507 of 25501
Hey. New board.
You should also look into making sure that your calibration isn't funky. If you have access to a calibration DVD (or blu-ray, or downloaded video files - this lifehacker article has some options) then that can help. My calibration on purchase was WAY out of wack.
Of course, I calibrated my TV using that article, still thought it was wrong, googled "best calibration settings for [TV model leaving out screen size bit]", found a thread on avsforums where people way dorkier than me posted their calibrations, and took one of them. It was nothing like the one I had made using my videos, but when I checked the calibration images with the new settings, they looked perfect. And nothing looks like a soap opera any more. And everything looks... right.
Then I discovered that my TV doesn't share calibrations across inputs - which I guess is nice if you want a different calibration for games than TV than movies, or something - and had to reenter all 30+ calibration settings two more times for my other two inputs.