I'm at a motel, watching my first 4K broadcast on a 4k set

I used to travel a lot for work and I remember some hotel channels were in 240.

 

the old customer in the tv shop in the 1982 film, Diner (I paraphrase):

"I don't need no 'high-fidelity' system. I saw the Bonanza in color and it was not for me. The Ponderosa looked fake."

 

Everything was turned on with mine for some reason. It felt like a forest of unnecessary options.

dan c

 

Hope it's nothing like Crossroads Motel in breaking bad.

 

Well, clearly most films from a few years agao were not filmed as if they would be seen at 4K. But I have a few blu-rays that really show actresses (especially) in a not so flattering light! The worse the film, the more you notice those things! I guess that’s the negative side of more resolution. I’m plenty happy with blu-ray....no 4K buying of DVD’s in my future, and I don’t see them phasing out blu-ray unless they phase out DVD’s as a format. I just don’t see most people replacing their discs again.

 

I have to say I am getting better and better at noticing "filmed in a green screen studio" scenes as time moves on. The lighting and shadows are very hard to get right. The 'uncanny valley outdoor lighting' issue.

Oh and any scene with a set backdrop that looks like it would have cost more than $1000 to make. Digital!

 

What about the next door person asking for a cup of sugar.
" hey love your 4K" " can I handle your remote "

 

Nothing personal against The Rock, but I thought everyone knew he wasn't in danger of winning an Oscar.

 

“Hey, I just ran out of quarters, so I was wondering...”

 

I remember that the first time I saw a large screen HD TV was in a hotel room. Watching Larry King Live. Not a face you want to see in HD. Had nightmares that night.

 

4K or 8K ?

 

Especially a bad film like "Ramage." there where one or two cutaway close ups of The Rock and he's obviously just standing in some studio in front of a blue screen half-heartedly delivering a punch-line. you could just tell it was an insert -- none of the intensity (or sweat) matched the action going on -- add the "soap opera" effect and it felt like a fan film.

 

You posted a similar list here about a year ago and it helped a lot.

 

Excellent! I hope more people become aware of these problems. Noted DP Reed Morano has been railing about this for years:

“Motion Interpolation was an effect that was created to reduce motion blur on HDTVs but a very unfortunate side effect of using this function is that is takes something shot at 24 fps or shot on film and makes it look like it was shot on video at 60i. In short, it takes the cinematic look out of any image and makes it look like soap opera shot on a cheap video camera.”

Cinematographer Reed Morano on the Fight Against TV’s “Smooth Motion” Setting

Ask here and I can walk you through the process. There are also good tutorials on the AVS Forum. It does drive me crazy that a) LG turns most of these things on by default, and b) they make it somewhat difficult to dig through all the menus to turn them off.

 

And BTW, here's a link to Mr. Tom Cruise telling viewers why they need to turn off motion-smoothing on their TV sets in order to best enjoy films like Mission: Impossible...



Tom Cruise on Twitter

 

I find it both disturbing & ironic that as HDTV's climb in resolution, the corporations that manufacture them are screwing up their endgame -ie- delivering the best picture quality. Hopefully some genius is going to market a 'bare-bones' HDTV with little or no motion-processing. The very thing that drew me to my Panasonic 2K Plasma HDTV ten years ago was it's ease of set-up, absolutely no motion-processing & natural picture-quality. Is there such a 4K HDTV?

 

Now let me see:

1. buy tv
2. plug in
3. attach cable
4. turn on w/remote
5. watch tv

What's all this other stuff about?

 

I remember being amazed that the restored Three Stooges sets from the 2007 releases showed that the female actors were braless in their silk blouses. I even polled two other people to see if they noticed anything within all the newfound clarity. They both saw it too, without any prompting from me.

 

While I've no doubt the OP was watching the movie on a 4K LCD TV, I find it nearly impossible to believe the actual source was 4K native. Certainly Pay Per View can be 4K, but I've never been in any hotel that offered such a service.

 

The Rock is undeserved of your in-depth television review.

 

Loved this, as Cruise speaks more to the average viewer than the opinion of the director.

Almost all new TVs ship with a good baseline mode, it’s just usually not the default mode. The default modes contain settings that are tweaked to highlight processing, consumer color preference (ie cold, over saturated) and often hit energy savings targets. Almost all OLEDs, especially LG, Sony and Panasonic have several good baseline modes, and will probably look better out of the box than your Panny plasma did — once you switch to those modes. Outside of OLED, I’d keep the plasma!

 

So, you're in a motel and want us to believe you're watching Dwayne Johnson instead of porn?
Or...Dwayne's Johnson?

 

I'll tell you one thing I re-learned, HBO is still the steaming pile it always was. After three days I'm sick of their content. It's repetitive, crap, and dated, just like it always was. I had it in 1985 and dumped it because they recycled Lorenzo Lamas in "Rollerboogie" all day. Today I was forced to watch some flaccid film with Idris Elba running around in the snow with Kate Winslet, one of the most pompous and nonsensical "classics" ever made: "The Prestige" which I hated the first time I saw it (this is first rate content paid content?. It was on Netflix for five years), some awful "filler" documentaries, and someone had the idea of producing a SHOW IN ITALIAN called My Beautiful Friend. What geniuses idea is that - a soap opera in Italian? Just what I want to listen to in the background when I'm working -- I keep thinking I must have the wrong channel dialed in.

So, HBO hasn't changed in forty years -- still serving your warmed-over crap for your money. wow. Incredible. Just show how lazy and wasteful Americans are, still throwing their money away for a thimbleful of entertainment on a lousy service.

No wonder they make so many "originals" they're still spending jack-all on their "movies."