Yes, I do mean interpolation. Just for the record, in the parts of the world where I have worked (Australia and France), a typical video stream, be it broadcas

Yes, I do mean interpolation. Just for the record, in the parts of the world where I have worked (Australia and France), a typical video stream, be it broadcast/pay-tv/dvd runs at 30fps or less. Recent televisions will interpolate to display frame rates up to 120fps. Like you, I hated the effect at first, but I left it running because I do STB user interfaces for a living, and I need to know what people that don't fiddle with their television are seeing. It's jarring at first because for reasons that I don't fully understand, you are able to discern where the light sources are in a scene when using this technique. You can see that big reflectors have been used for outside shots, or that there is a spot shining just off camera. This is what gives it that cheap video effect, because as anyone that works with video for a living can tell you, the crappy quality of home videos is mostly due to poor lighting. Cinematographers are going to have to work harder in the future to assure a more even light field in their shots. In the meantime, I have found that after using this type of display technology for more than a few months, you start to prefer the high frame rate to older technologies.