Why do my Blu-rays look like soap operas now??

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Originally Posted by Preeminent

Hey guys,
Great site. I just jumped into Blu ray. I recently bought a new LG player with netflix/youtube streaming and love it! While at Best Buy, I walked into their home theater room and they had Pirates of the Caribbean Blu Ray playing on about a 50/55 inch 1080p LCD screen. It looks insane! Super crisp and clear. Every little detail is visible. Like you are actually on set watching them act out the movie. My question is this though: I only have a small 22 inch 720p Lcd screen(with HDMI for both audio and video) and it when watching Blu Ray-We Were Soldiers, it obviously doesn't look like that. I mean it looks good but really doesn't look that much better than regular dvd. Is it because Pirates was such a great transfer or is it because I only have a 720p tv?

A couple of things to consider, they definetly calibrate their TV's correctly so you are seeing things like sharpness, color temp, brightness and contrast the way is should be in that semi dark room. The second thing is that you might have been looking at a motion plus LCD which really makes the image pop off the screen.

Back in Feb I was walking through the now defunked Circuit City and I saw Dark Knight playing on a 52" Motion plus Samsung LN750 TV. I was blown away how the image looked. I bought the TV right there and took the remote from the demo tv and wrote down all the calibration settings so I could duplicate the image at home.

You might have been biten by the same LCD bug that I was back then.