Soap Opera Effect Mitigation

[omara31]

This may be a dated topic but any advice would be appreciated.

 

Unlike my hifi, I haven’t up dated my television for about 15 years, not a priority and happy with my 50 inch Panasonic plasma etc.  One reason I haven’t really considered upgrading is that I hate the soap opera effect on shows and movies.  For me, it completely takes away the magic of shows and movies.  The magic is in the filtered effect not looking like real life!  The idea of spending $1000s on an 80 inch screen for my shows to look awful seems like a bad idea and a wasted of money.  Although sports do look great.  
I played around with some settings at a recent airbnb on an 85 inch 4K LG and it was a bit better but still detracted from the shows I was watching.

Does anyone know if there is a TV on the market that can truly get rid of this hideous effect?  I am surprised viewers put up with it.

 

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[Lil Caesar]

For older material there is little that can be done but current content, especially the higher budget productions that have the HDR treatment the visuals are spectacular on modern HDR capable panels.

[Steff]

16 minutes ago, omara31 said:

Does anyone know if there is a TV on the market that can truly get rid of this hideous effect?  I am surprised viewers put up with it.

 

It's particularly jarring in, say, Sean Connery as James Bond seeming to be stuck on a sitcom stage.

Good luck with the search.

[omara31]

Seems so counter intuitive to the cinema & tv experience.  Movies at the cinema don’t look like they do on these new OLED 4K tvs.  The clarity maybe “spectacular” but the magic is gone - at least for me it is - seems plenty love it.  I don’t get it.

[zenikoy]

Is this problem getting worse? I've never had problems disabling it on the TVs I've been confronted with. Just kill any setting that mentions "adaptive" or "motion" etc.

 

[omara31]

Ok and you reckon the picture looks like movies & shows always have when you change those settings?

 

I have tried on a few tvs & haven’t had success putting it in, for example, cinema mode then reducing frame rate , clarity etc  . If I am paying 3k plus I’d like a picture I’m happy with - doesn’t seem to much to ask.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[squares of glass]

It is like the race for pixel resolution is a lopsided approach to media.  

 

Just my personal opinion,  but jaw dropping resolution seems to come at the expense of the other experiential qualities (spatial, motion and yes even gravity)...I always got that a sense of light required darkness, but I never twigged that lightness (ephemeralness) needs a sense of gravity.

[aussievintage]

On 08/07/2024 at 8:39 PM, omara31 said:

Seems so counter intuitive to the cinema & tv experience.  Movies at the cinema don’t look like they do on these new OLED 4K tvs.  The clarity maybe “spectacular” but the magic is gone - at least for me it is - seems plenty love it.  I don’t get it.

 

It's just a demonstration of the way our brains work.  You want movies to look the way they have for most of your life.   If you watch nothing but hires non-filtered movies for long enough, you'll end up prefering them the new way.

Edited October 16, 2024 by aussievintage

[Chigurh]

I wish TVs had buttons on their remotes for presets depending on content. They could be like Film, Sport, Nature and General. My old Panasonic CRT had this sort of thing back in the 90s.