Anyone else hate 120hz LCD video?

[natronforever]

What model and size LCD? Have you calibrated your set, or it using the defaults out of the box? What is your viewing distance?

The new 240Hz sets look outstanding, they are able to show 30fps or 24fps content without skipping frames or changing the speed of playback. I've also been impressed with the 120Hz sets I've seen from Tier 1 manufacturers (Samsung, Sharp, Sony), once calibrated.

cheers,
elapsed

Oh, I don't have an LCD. I have a plasma. But I can always spot a 120hz TV - even from "Tier 1" manufacturers. I don't think calibration has anything to do with it. It's the fluidity of motion with the 120hz processing that looks so unnatural that bothers me most. Besides, I'm colorblind, so appropriate calibration is likely lost on me anyway.

[Woochifer]

Oh, I don't have an LCD. I have a plasma. But I can always spot a 120hz TV - even from "Tier 1" manufacturers. I don't think calibration has anything to do with it. It's the fluidity of motion with the 120hz processing that looks so unnatural that bothers me most. Besides, I'm colorblind, so appropriate calibration is likely lost on me anyway.

Saw a demo of one Samsung's new LED LCD models last week, and their Auto Motion Plus interpolation feature must have turned to maximum because the picture looked incredibly strange -- stranger than any of the other 120 Hz demos I've seen. The TV was playing a Blu-ray of Speed Racer, which in itself has an inherently fake look to it. In general, it looked like the picture got separated into two layers, with stationary objects on one layer and the moving objects on another. The stationary objects looked fine, but the moving objects look like they were superimposed or otherwise didn't belong in the picture.