Comment by sevensor
2 months ago
What is the “soap opera effect?” Mentioned in the article, but I haven’t heard of it.
Also, this is probably just because I’m old, but a lot of recent TV seems inadequately lit, where you can just barely see part of one character’s face in some scenes. It’s like they watched Apocalypse Now and decided everything should be the scene with Marlon Brando in the cave.
It's called motion interpolation, but a lot of TVs call it "motion smoothing". It artificially increases the frame rate. I don't really know how to describe it, but I find it a little disconcerting and I immediately turn that feature off when I buy a new TV. It almost makes the motion look more "real life" in a bad way.
Ah, thank you. I’ve seen that, and it’s horrible!
It's called that from 90s soap operas using cheap 60 Hz video cameras instead of film.
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