We watch a lot of hockey. Does anyone know if motion blur is an issue?
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It was on my 50 inch version of this. Watching football was maddening. .. still shots of players looked fantastic. Daddy motion on the other hand did not.
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Carefully read the specs! Some units will specify new electronic processing to almost virtually eliminate the blur you are concerned about; I noticed it right away in the perceptual clarity...you pay a little more but the difference is worth it.
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Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event viewing. Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event... » Read More Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event viewing. « Show Less
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Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event viewing.
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There's a feature that allows you to change motion smoothening. You'll have to consult the manual, but I do remember having this issue early on. This is common on HDTV's
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Michael. I have also read about people turning off the 120Hz. Seems strange that a feature that should "improve" fast motion needs to be turned off! Any owners out there have anything to add? I would love to hear from you.
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I just took delivery of my 550, and I immediately saw blurring while watching hockey (and some on basketball). It's as if the TV is going in and out of focus very quickly, and it's very annoying. I'm pretty sure I'm going to send the TV back, but really need to know if anyone thinks this issue goes away with the 120 hz models. If so, I'll trade up. Thanks.
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I don't normally watch sports on this machine. I use it as my desktop monitor because I can plug a laptop in thru the HDMI port and use both machines. Having said that, I hooked up and external HD antenna and watched the Bears lose tonight. Although I occasionally lost the screen due to thunderstorms bollixing reception, I did not notice any blurring. I then went to ESPN through my desktop and watched some of their videos. Voila, occasionally the screen blurs. I don't know whether I need a faster internet speed or whether the box is at fault. I suspect internet due to it working OK over the air. Hope this helps.
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Ignore the post about the Monster HDMI cable. The HDMI signal is digital and it pretty much makes it there OK or you'll see some obvious picture artifacts that don't include blurring. While Monster (mostly) makes good cables, their claims of higher quality video are mostly hype. Motion blur: It's most likely to be the source material with the modern offerings of good LCD TVs, but older or less expensive LCDs could definitely suffer from it due to the slow response time of the LCD panel. If you're wondering about it in regards to TVs that do 120Hz, I'm on the fence on whether the 120Hz processing does anything useful. I've seen some TVs where the 120Hz processing does some pretty ugly things to the picture. I'm yet to see one that does something to noticeably improve the picture, but maybe some do. Right now I'm leaning towards 120Hz processing being a marketing feature primarily created to make you think your current TV is obsolete.
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Gaming: Not so much, there is far too much blurring when things move, even when you just turn slowly in a game :( However the screen is great for RTS-games and such, where the image isn't moving as much.
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It's a source issue..plasmas handle fast motion better than other types of TV. Many sources are poor though. Make sure your motion smoothing is turned off too.
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I have not had this issue. I watch a lot of sports including the football games yesterday and I have no blur issues. The transitions are clear. Sorry I could not be of more assistance.
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Dear Family Guy,The Epson 5020UB Projector runs in 2D at 240 frames per second. This is very fast and you should not be able to see any stutter or motion blur while watching sports. The only time this may happen is if the cable or satellite feed has a hiccup. Thanks so much!
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I did play a game through the 360 game system and did not see any lag or skipping of the video. Everything appeared to be normal. (I guess the fps that your talking about is the frames per second.)
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Just buy it. It has no motion blur that I can see, and I am picky when it comes to video quality. Perhaps if you go close to the screen and put your brain on slow-mo mode (if your brain has a slow-mo mode) you can see it. The only problem with this TV I have encountered is that smart share doesnt play many file formats, and the tv is not compatible with the logitech TV cam HD.
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I just turned my blu ray player from 60Hz to 24Hz and the motion is more smooth in 3d surprisingly. Without this setting the motion was very blur and uneasy on eyes. My TV is 120Hz, it is LG 47LW5300 and the blu ray player is LG BD645. Thanks Jaeckel, I was thinking of returning the tv and player untill I set this option.
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Thank you Michael for your very helpful detailed response. Good to know in what settings to use which recording mode. I plan to keep it mainly on 1080p as you, unless filming an event with quick moving images such as a sports match in which case I'll switch to 720p @ 60fpm. Thanks again for your input :)
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Fast moving video, like sports or racing, is handled very well. I noticed no motion blur when I was watching college football because it uses backlight scanning which triples the refresh rate to 360hz to compensate for fast moving objects. I hope this helps.
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Im watching it :D just adjust your resoulution a bit, since this one has problems a bit with 1920x1080 at 60 hz resolutions.
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Motion blur is a very subjective thing. Everyone seems to look at it differently. In my opinion, TV's that are built for a standard refresh rate (60hz) are generally the most consistent to how they deal with motion blur, because it's a well established standard, so everyone designs for it. If you're using a non-standard refresh rate (say 120hz), then the software has to deal with modifying the input, and you have some sort of conversion going on. I've seen TV's that look *terrible* even on simple camera pan's, because they use a non-standard refresh rate and the software deals with it poorly. On the other hand, the owner of that TV swears it looks great (maybe because he shelled out $$$ for it). The absolute best thing you can do is to see it in person. That's really the only way you can tell if it's going to work for you or not. Partially as well it depends on TV settings and input source (and settings), so this is something that can be really difficult to figure out before you pull the trigger on your purchase. Fortunately Amazon does have a good return policy, so the best thing may be to buy it, try it, and return it if you don't like it.