General info Plasma vs oled(or led tvs, both have today a very fast pixelresponsetime, which creates judder and stutter in motion and on camera panning:
Details on how motion is handled or more precise; look like and its side effects and positive effects using clarity settings, like cinematic movement and Natural setting(interpolation settings, smoothing/artificial frames creation). The Plasmaīs motion did make motion blur(the kind of blur plasma did make was more natural and you did not sense it like it was poor motion,just natural).
(out of focus due to 23/24fps, too few frames to make motion appear clear, or more precise each frame stayed longer on screen before it dissapeared, due the the screens responsetime was slower which is good for low fps content(movies)
, this created blur in fast scenes, instead of oled clear but stutter rendering of 23p movies).
..but so does your sight, when you turn your head(objects get out of focus), it is how Your eyes/sight work(s). So if the Tv and movie industry is going to go for 60 fps movies instead of the regular 23.976 fps it will kill off the cinematic feel one gets when viewing a movie. If pictures and motion are more or less clear all the time it will look very artificial and not present how real scenes would naturally look like( altering how You perceive motion, unrealistic motion). You dont need a clear picture all the time..this how you get the action feel of a movie, when an action scene is presented and surprises you or urg the theatrical feel of the movieīs action scenes . a 60 fps movie, motion will look too clear, even i fast motion..it looks completely artificial and change your perception of motion.
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A tip! Because there are no "right" settings and there are good and bad rendering with all choices, and if one does not want to tweak and see what works and what does not work, and donīt mind some stutters, shivering effects and shimmering effects on moving objects in high contrast scenes, like the opening white room scene in Alien Covenant, one can just set truemotion to cinematic movement (a set and forget motion setting). In general this is a good choice and with this choice one get a more natural motion and less ROBOTIC motion, which too much interpolation introduce, also the dreaded SOE-effect is much less visable too.
So these are positive effects, by using less interpolation. Most of the times this works well (also I read now that the latest Lg G4 is cheered for the new cinematic movement interpolation setting, which is really good they say. By they I mean professional reviewers, which in reality means, itīs not quite there yet!!!). Many movies work ok with this setting, like the latest Batman movie or Jurassic world. Also If You want smoother motion and better panning scenes, choose Truemotion, Natural, instead of using custom settings like de-judder, de-blur and bfi.
(If you use hdr, turn off hdr tonemapping as this introduces more easily artifacts in motion scene( this is the case for LG oled B1, the C4 or G4 will do this much better(use the opening scene alien movie to play with interpolation settings to see how little interpolation one needs, newer tvs may do hdr tonemapping better and without artifacts).
(this(bfi) lower the brightness significantly and I can not say I have seen any improvement motionwise using bfi), some state that the pre-choices are more fine-tuned and introduces less artifacts. I Am happy with this setting(natural). but You get as I mentioned a more robotic motion.
(I also read Sonyīs latest Led flagship is still the best on handeling motion(in general Sony has better motionhandeling software, but this is getting very narrow now and with G4 its even now or Lgs is better even(less visable artifacts) . What I like about Lg is that You get more choices 1-10 in de-judder, clearity and bfi(note that in Sony tvīs clearity feather, is the bfi-setting). On Sony tvīs You just set the picture mode to "true cinema/cinema" and You be fine (one does not need to activate custom mode, the tv will handle it all and with very little or no visable SOE effect, if I have understood the Sony settings correct). (custom mode: smoothing and clearness settings is then handled by the Tvīs settings). Also set Cinemotion/Film mode to high and if one experiencing any unwanted rendering like atifacts, then set it at medium or even at low(to make panning not look to bad)(less chance of flickering to happen I read just now on a avforum). I also read that set at custom, smoothness at 2, clearnes at 1 and film mode(cinemotion) at low to get smoother panning scenes. This is for best motion. So one just have to try things out and choose what is best for You, what balance one think is best.
In general newer movies works much better with cinematic movement setting, then with Natural setting. Like newer spiderman movies one does not need that much interpolation( I believe, not seen the whole movie), which Natural setting provides. Older movies normally need the natural setting to look good. This is because how cameras is used making many of the scenes and the use of much more panning compare to the new movies, one see this very easily with newer Marvel movies. They need less interpolation to look good, because of less usage of panning or really fast panning so one does not notice any unwanted rendering/stutter/artifacts. Movies like british crime series, at least the newer ones like, Inspector Morse, I just turn off truemotion or set it to cinematic movement, because of very little use of camera panning.
For Sony tvs this is a good thread to read:
https://www.avforums.com/threads/sony-motionflow-film-mode-settings-explained-finally.2205593/Update! JRiver version 33īs new presentation mode for JRVR is a very good upgrade, when it comes to rendering videos/movies. Smooth motion and less artifacts(unbelievable!). The new timing of frames and vsync is a very good solution. So the Tvs interpolation give better results by erradicate or reduce artifacts and motion is more consistent and smooth and less chance that stutter or microstutter occur(there still is discrepancy here though, but the culprits to this could be numerous ( gpu, cpu, vsync, nvidia driver, OS and Jrvr or most likely the Tvīs own motion handeling.). So this is a big upgrade for the JRiver software on how it renders videos.