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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

by sevensor 10mo 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.

codelikeawolf 10mo ago
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.
- sevensor 10mo ago
  Ah, thank you. I’ve seen that, and it’s horrible!
  - ChoGGi 10mo ago
    It's called that from 90s soap operas using cheap 60 Hz video cameras instead of film.
    - sevensor 10mo ago
      That totally makes sense; in fact my gut reaction was “why does this look like it was shot on video? I could swear this show used to look better.”