Kit Rae
Sr Member
My TV does several grades of smoothing, from normal > faintly creepyvision > creepyvision lite > creepyvision > megacreepyvision. They look different-ish, but in degree, not kind. Points on a spectrum.
This one is on the extreme side, just like every other tv I have watched that has this feature. Everything has the smooth, flatly lit, video look. Impossible to watch a DVD or Blue Ray movie on that tv. It destroys the look of film lighting and has the annoying effect of flattening the contrast.
I don't equate that look with HFR though. The HFR 3D Imax I saw had a real look like I was sitting right there with the characters. 240hz does not look "real", but I can see how some people can equate the two, especially considering how some of the early scenes in Bilbo's House were somewhat flatly lit, making the brain see "video". Even in 24fps I noticed that, but most of the rest of the film was not lit that way.