“If you hate the "soap opera effect" would this set be better than one with 4K with 120 refresh rate?”
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The quest for a better LCD picture by manufacturer's R&D over the years honestly messes with what you know to be reality. Would you watch a full movie in slow motion or fast forward? No. Why? Because it isn't natural. But what if the picture motion could be improved while sacrificing natural movement for less motion blur by making everything move slightly too fast? What a crappy idea but they did this anyways. Manufactures think they have accomplished something great but they should have honestly polled consumers before setting out to make every TV worse with their BS technology. My recommendation would be to hunt for and find an older 1080p TV in great shape in the used market to enjoy the content that you love even the ones with 120hz/motion smoothing technology because you can actually turn that crap completely off. The second alternative is to get a 4K 60hz native panel tv. DO NOT get a 4K 120hz tv if you like watching movies and broadcast as the tech behind these panels will automatically make the picture movement too fast and there is NOTHING that you can do to slow it down or turn it off. Even if you have the motion smoothing turned off, 120hz refresh rate paneled televisions take content received and refreshes it automatically. There is no way to turn off the refresh rate and you will be stuck with an oddly fast picture no matter what.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi WAS. Even though some higher priced 4K TVs have a refresh rate of 120 Hz, many of the less expensive sets are 60 Hz. Frame rate is how often a video source can deliver a frame of visual data to a screen for display. The frame rate is a property of the video source, not the display screen. Videos are often recorded at 24fps (frames per second) or 30 fps. In the U.S., the standard frame rate for broadcasts (NTSC) is set to 30fps, but if you were to view a video at this speed, it would seem jerky and slow. This is where refresh rate becomes important. To make sluggish, if standard, frame rates seem smoother, screens "refresh" a frame more frequently by creating a duplicate of some images or creating a pseudo-transition with motion blur effects. This gives the appearance of a higher frame rate when there actually isn't one. For example, if you have a 30fps video source, a 60Hz TV will display each frame two times a second. Thirty frames per second work nicely with 60Hz because 60 is divisible by 30. Film can complicate matters, as it is typically shot at 24fps. This means that a TV with a 60Hz refresh rate cannot evenly distribute frames, and that film which goes to video broadcast at 30 frames per second will not look the same as it did in the cinema. TVs can use an interlacing process known as 3:2 pulldown to improve smoothness; however, this is an imperfect process, and more perceptive viewers may notice film judder, flickering, or "tearing" effects. A TV with a refresh rate of 120 Hz does not have to do anything special to display video or film, as 120 is divisible by both 24 and 30. This means that, in general, 120Hz will result in a smoother viewing experience. Sporting events and some films are often filmed at a higher frame rate per second than film or regular video. Filming at a higher frame rate removes some of the need for motion blurring, which means that the smoothness of the video should look better on all modern TVs. However, some viewers will find the realness ironically fake looking after years of viewing video at lower frame rates per second. While a 120hz TV doesn't inherently produce better motion, it can provide a few advantages over standard 60Hz TVs. An important one is the proper playback of content meant to be displayed at 24Hz such as cinema. Most TVs now can simply adjust the refresh rate of their panel to fit the source, but some devices (such as chromecast) can only output at 60Hz regardless of the content being played. nother place where 120Hz is useful is if you enjoy the motion interpolation feature found on TVs (soap opera effect). Most TVs have this feature, even 60Hz ones, but since motion interpolation works by adding generated frames between existing ones, having a higher refresh rate allows you to have twice as many extra frames. This allows the TV to make better interpolated frames as it can spread the movement into more precise steps. Another useful feature caused by having a higher refresh rate is the ability to use motion interpolation on 60p content. Since they cannot display more than 60 frames per second, a 60Hz cannot use its soap opera effect feature on content with higher frame rates. A 120Hz TV has the advantage of being able to add an additional interpolated frame between each of the 60Hz ones, since it is capable of displaying twice as many. Unless you have a 120Hz TV, you will only be able to use this feature on 24p or 30p content. At a minimum, you need 120 Hz to do motion interpolation or black frame insertion. Trying to do this with a 60 Hz TV means that with a lot of content, the TV would be throwing away information. Interestingly, the motion blur on TVs is largely created by your brain! Your brain notices the motion and makes assumptions as to where that object is going to be in the next fraction of a second. Current TVs hold the image for a full 60th of a second, so your brain actually smears the motion thinking that it should be moving when in fact, it's just a series of still images. Frame interpolation is one method for reducing motion blur as it fools the enough that it doesn't blur the image but that can lead to the soap opera effect. The other method is black frame insertion (BFI). With this method, the image doesn't hold in place so your brain doesn't blur it. This method works better when combined with a 120 Hz refresh rate since 120 fps frames stay half as long on screen so when your eyes track a moving object across a screen, it blends the two frames together. A 60 fps video played on a 120Hz TV will look no different than on a 60Hz TV. In a case like this, the TV either adjusts itself to match the refresh rate of the source, which effectively turns it into a 60Hz TV, or it simply doubles every frame...^IFV
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