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- Ron Anderson
I was watching "The Bountyhunter" last night. It's about the 10th movie I'd watched via streaming netflix through the samsung, so what I began to percieve made me wonder if I was merely getting more discriminating in my observations or if there was something inherent to this particular movie. I started noticing that body movements, automobiles moving, etc, were exhibiting an irritating stop motion. I recognized it as low frame rate causing a strobing effect to movement and just googled "netflix frame rates per second" and found plenty to confirm my worries right on the first of many pages. http://netflixcommunity.ning.com/for...mment%3A959231 Is there a method of determining FPS when streaming via the blu ray player? I just called netflix and they have logs which indicate that last night while I was watching "The Bountyhunter" my speed was as high as 21mb and never lower than 9mb. Netflix tech asst assured me that frame rate was very unlikely to be impaired at that speed. My ISP is surely going to tell me the same thing. There is no doubt that I was witnessing it with my own eyes. What's the next step?
I'll be sure to avoid it now that I'm sensitized to this problem. I'm less inclined to blame my components finally, despite that my Samsung was dinged in a couple of reviews for displaying more judder than some others tested. But after seeing your comments here, and those at other forums I've joined, it looks like it's an issue that needs to be accomodated in varying degrees depending on the source material. Some have even suggested that 'judder' in not precisely the correct term for it. "jitter" "strobe effect" etc. In any case, it appears that it's a widely recognized shortcoming of the 24fps standard in filming. It's only more noticeable now that we have such high definition playback devices. I was worried that HD sports might be a problem then with this set but to my relief it appears not to be the case. I watched an HD football game yesterday and it was absolutely flawless. Can anyone tell me if this is because sports and most televison shows are digital video to begin with and immune from frame rate problems? After the game I watched "Space Cowboys", in regular def, from netflix. It too was near perfect. I then watched "The Town" from VuDu, in HD, which should have been that much better, and there was pretty irritating judder in the background of many panning shots. Go figure. I went back to netflix and tried "The Iron Giant" animated feature and it was literally unwatchable (now that I'm looking for this stuff). Panning in the animation looked like there was a strobe light in the room. Realllllllly irritating. There is a firmware update for my television, which according to samsung is meant to correct my model's shortcoming here, so I'll have to see. But for most part I believe 98 percent of what I'm seeing is source related and having little to do with my components or even my ISP. You know, I thought I'd learned my lesson with high end audio years ago to stop sweating the details so much when I finally realized that I was no longer just enjoying the music like I'd used to. I'll have to relearn this again now that high end video has finally come into our living rooms.
