120 Hz LCD and Blu-ray

[DarkClown]

Originally Posted by MrRoy

Unfortunately, I have a keen eye and pick this stuff up. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix seems to be the biggest culprit for the judder/choppiness. In the beginning scene, when the camera is panning down over the field, the passing cars viewed from top down and the bushes/trees all seem to be moving down in chunks, almost jumping on the screen. When it is being displayed at 60hz, it isn't as smooth as butter, but it is about 90% gone.

There seems to be a lot of variables in this. For me, when I first got my BD-P1400 player every movie I tried was noticibly choppy no matter if I ran it at 24fps or 60. The solution that worked for me was to invest in a decent HDMI cable. I went through 4 different cables until I found one that worked right. After that I never see any chop, which is quite different than the 'stutter' effect caused by a fast pan at 24fps. As many have suggested, just go to a theater and that effect is quite obvious on film too. The choppiness caused by the poor HDMI signal was exactly that. Choppy. Uneven. Probably caused by randow frames being totally dropped. While the stutter in a film is quite evenly spaced, so while still noticible, it is not as distracting as chop.

I've seen a few people here asking how to change the frame rates. I have little doubt that different models of equipment work in different ways. My TV automatically changes the rate according to the source it is receivng and it lets you know so on screen. So if I want to switch between 24 and 60 I tell the player what rate to send to the TV and the TV switches rates to accomodate. I personally opted not to spend the extra money for the 120hz because I was un-impressed by it. Actually it looked quite good when playing back broadcast TV and animated Blu-Rays. But I too thought it made movies shot on film look too fake. If I watched a lot of sports on my HDTV I'd probably have opted for 120hz as the motion clearly is much smoother.


To each his own I guess.