Your new TV ruins Movies (interesting article)

The first thing I did when I bought my Panasonic Viera was to set it to Cinema mode and adjust the black levels. It's perfect for movies...but other things do look better at the Vivid setting - like Discovery or Animal Planet.
 
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we've spent the last 15 years or so trying to make video look more like film.
and now they're making tvs that make film look like video.

i wonder if that was the same marketing douchebag who decided glossy screens was a good idea?

God help us all.
 
wgzn said:
we've spent the last 15 years or so trying to make video look more like film.
And now they're making tvs that make film look like video.

I wonder if that was the same marketing douchebag who decided glossy screens was a good idea?

God help us all.
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rofl! +1!!
 
I've seen the Avatar thing first hand in a Sony store. He got the reaction exactly right - I kept thinking "Is this a video game?"
 
wrong part of the forum for this,avatar looks like videogame even without 120hz retardation fx .
Jurassic park looked 100000000000000 times more real than avatar.
 
* don't miss on the comments on that article, there are some very interesting tips

* The Third And The Seventh is a one-man effort and looks worlds better than Avatar, it's just as if it was made 5 years later (and the lack of a story is actually a plus if the alternative is that from Avatar: "oh, I'll get myself a red Ferrari and everyone will forgive me for ruining everything, broom broom")
 
I'm really happy with my Panasonic Viera Plasma G series for watching films. The THX setting is pretty sweet. I've watched some films at work, i do nightshifts, on Samsung LED's and I really don't like the picture at all. Looks video to me, and there's a lot of ghosting. If all you do is watch films you can't go wrong with a high end Panny plasma!
 
i tried to look at 3d tvs in the store. i told the guy it didn't look good. Then he gave me the glasses.
 
moxrox said:
Interesting article about modern TV´s and the settings for watching film/movies...


http://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.html
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IMO that was a great article... sums up my feelings exactly. My brother bought a $2K+ Aquos and loves how "real" the image looks on 120hz and Vivid... so I go over there to see Jaws looking like a handi-cam BTS of the real thing, only to realize nope, that is the real movie... yuck! Of course he would describe it as "hyper-realistic"... but never before have I seen pixelated motion artifacts behind fast action, in the real world. When your TV adds extra interpolated frames between the actual frames that were shot... there's no getting away from it, 50% of the image you're seeing is fake. I wouldn't mind that if it didn't LOOK fake. The motion artifacts in a football game make me feel sick.

Of course this is the same guy who thinks that more bass always = better. So of course he's got a Bose TV system that sounds good 10% of the time. If the sound was "boom" then on his system it's "BOOOOPHHHHPHHHHMMM"... while the 80hz bass drowns out everything else... as if the same movie was playing in the next room and just the bass was ruining ours.

Bottom line is... there's no accounting for taste... and most people don't have any. All they know is bigger, brighter, louder, faster, sweeter... whatever... is better.

The real irony is that the more sophisticated the technology gets = the less sophisticated the demands of the consumers in the end product. Just because a product can do everything better then the last generation, doesn't mean it looks good to try to make it do everything to the max settings.

I'm just happy that it's still possible to get a good picture with available settings.
 
Yeah I once knew a guy who sold his perfectly fine AudioPro Black Diamonds and got a cheap 700 dollar speaker surround system from the Swedish equivalent to the local Radio Shack place because they looked better in his appartment.

Not that he was a friend of mine or anything. I didn't know the guy THAT well, of course. Don't get me wrong.
 
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