Samy Auto Motion Plus 120Hz

[krzywica]

Anybody try this feature yet?

Any time I enable it I get lagging of the image....and it just plain looks jittery.....I thought it was supposed to make for a smooth picture but any time it is enabled it does the opposite.

Any thought?

 

[EJ1]

I've tried the AMP but I never like the look of the picture. Makes it look fake or "behind the scenes" look. I heard it's good for CGI though.

 

[Jack Hammer]

At first I really liked it and prefered teh way it looked, but after a few weeks it started to wear on me and I had a change of heart. Now I just don't use it at all. In short, the things it helps on look great, the things it doesn't look awful. Overall I just don't feel it's ready yet for prime time.

Jack

 

[krzywica]

At first I really liked it and prefered teh way it looked, but after a few weeks it started to wear on me and I had a change of heart. Now I just don't use it at all. In short, the things it helps on look great, the things it doesn't look awful. Overall I just don't feel it's ready yet for prime time.

Jack

Well the things it is supposed to be good on are sports as far as I know.....and I was watching an EPL soccer match and tried all 4 settings. On high it was just awfull, the ball actually looked like Gran Turismo when you do the ghost lap thing and there are two cars on the track, one following the other...and I was watching House last night and had it on low and anything with slow movement just looks plain jittery.


How Samsung could have possibly made this a selling point I have no idea....

 

[Jack Hammer]

Samsung came out with a firmware upgrade for some of the models earlier this year that was supposed to help with what I believe they called the "three ball effect." That was ghost car-like effect you mentioned seeing. Be careful if you plan the FW upgrade to make sure which version you already have.

Samsung had told me when I called them if you do the upgrade but don't actually need it, it will ruin the tv beyond repair. I like my tv overall, but have little faith in the people working for the company that made it.

Jack

 

[jostenmeat]

Anybody try this feature yet?

Any time I enable it I get lagging of the image....and it just plain looks jittery.....I thought it was supposed to make for a smooth picture but any time it is enabled it does the opposite.

Any thought?

Its called frame interpolation. Every company has their own name for it, and Samsung's version is the AMP you refer to.

Plug in frame interpolation as search at AVS, and you will get a bunch of threads. If there was one master thread, I would've already linked it here.

 

[annunaki]

I prefer the Auto Motion Plus off on the Samsungs. They are reasonably good with motion (among the best in the LCD world) compared to other LCD makers.

The AMP makes film look like a handheld camcorder.

 

[krzywica]

I prefer the Auto Motion Plus off on the Samsungs. They are reasonably good with motion (among the best in the LCD world) compared to other LCD makers.

The AMP makes film look like a handheld camcorder.

Exactly correct....I was trying to racall what it reminded me of.

When I was watching the new Indiana Jones flick I was thinking.....this looks like it was shot in somones garage......lol


I'll have to check out the firmware update as well, I saw it on the samy site the other day but I checked the bug fix notes and it didn't have that in there. But then again I haven't checked the firmware version that is currently on my TV either....

 

[perkey84]

About the 120hz thing

hey you commented on my "bleedthrough" backlighting thread so i thought i would check out your threads. About the 120hz thing we have the same series samsung but i believe you've got the 46'' and i got the 40''. So what do you think of it? Besides the 120hz problem. I've noticed with mine that it almost seems to be trying too hard to refresh the picture, and that with slow movies it looks good but as for faster films just turn it off. A buddy of mine does installations for hhgreg and he recommends an hdmi with a higher mbps rate. I think monster cable has 1 thats like 10.2 mbps. I guess the tv is trying its best, but the hdmi isn't feeding the info quick enough. the weakest link deal you know. Hey, i imagine you have a blu-ray player. if you do.check out discovery channels "planet earth" and "dave matthews and tim renolds live from radio city." These are the two best images I've seen on this samsung.and if you have tru-hd audio you should enjoy that aspect as well. Does your contrast/dynamic contrast seem to be an all or nothing sorta thing?

 

[jostenmeat]

that with slow movies it looks good but as for faster films just turn it off. A buddy of mine does installations for hhgreg and he recommends an hdmi with a higher mbps rate. I think monster cable has 1 thats like 10.2 mbps. I guess the tv is trying its best, but the hdmi isn't feeding the info quick enough.

It has nothing to do with your HDMI cable. Its that the VP isn't powerful, or fast enough, to handle fast moving video.

If you do want an HDMI cable with higher bandwidth, try the 1.3 selection at Monoprice, keep $100 in the pocket, and buy me a pint of beer for the advice.