Colleagues,
I've tried the various Motionflow settings, and I think Sony's motion smoothing (dejuddering) works extremely well; perhaps better than any other TV I've seen.
However, just occasionally it seems to be defeated, and I wonder if anyone can explain why. It's as if there is some type of source material which it can't smooth.
I've got Motionflow set to Clear Plus (which is the strongest setting), and 95% of the time it works beautifully on broadcast TV. But occasionally a program, or clip, will show bad juddering on pans or rapid movement. A great example in the past couple of days was on BBC HD Preview. All the clips were fine apart from one - a Top Gear report by Richard Hammond about a giant military vehicle, which he drives around and tries to blow up.
The pans and general movements showed really clear judder. It's almost as if the TV had no motion smoothing at all. But, every other clip in the preview sequence was as smooth as silk.
Could it be that there is something in the way the material is originally filmed that stops Motionflow working?
All comments/guesses/"me too"s welcomed.
Steve
Edit: Someone on Usenet has suggested that it might be 1080p broadcasts which cause the problem. Apparently only BBC HD use that format at the moment. What do you guys reckon? Do I need to report
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