The Soap Opera Effect - Yay or Nay?

[Geoff D]

Yay! I got one right! Just to reciprocate (not that it matters coming from an Armchair Expert™): J is correct that digital cinemas screen 24fps content at 72Hz, not unlike the double (so 48Hz) or triple bladed shutters on ye olde filme projektors. (And the 48fps 3D Hobbit went out at 144Hz to each eye!)

When I brought up the 270º shutter angle of the Hobbit elsewhere someone said to me that the effective shutter angle of the 24fps extraction would be halved (so it's 135º than the usual 180º) and that's why it's still got something of a slightly odd look to the motion? Any thoughts on that James?

In any case, the MotionFlow Clear option on my set does a great job with The Hobbitses as well, making them look smoother but not unnaturally so. And I just want to reiterate that I do NOT use the motionflow by default when viewing movies that are acquired at 24p, but when something is shot with a shutter angle that's different from the norm - thereby shedding the typical motion blur in the first place - then I like to experiment with it.