I HATE Auto Motion Plus on my new Samsung 6050

I had to turn this off on my brother's TV(not Samsung) several months ago, and it literally took me over a half hour to find the setting. If there isn't one, I'd probably have to return it, that shit is awful(yet SOMEHOW he couldn't tell the difference!).

If you have your owner's manual I'd consult that, or the Samsung site probably has one in pdf form.

Best of luck. It really does look bad. I can't believe they're selling TVs with this on by default. It's good for video games and nothing else(I've heard it's okay for sports).

A couple of years ago my friend was showing off his $3,000 Smart-LED Samsung to me with this Auto Motion Plus feature on. I asked him why it (he had Let the Right One In playing) looked like it was shot on home video. I'm with you - why anyone would want their content to look like that is beyond me. He said something to the effect that you get used to it and he liked it. Maybe for video games it's fine but for movies... yech.

I'd say your issue is with the firmware. It doesn't sound like the Off option is really working. At least you have an alternative way to turn it off.

Is this why AVATAR on the store display TVs looks like a video game? I just saw one and was confused as to why it looked so terrible.

So I will probably end up buying a new TV and Blu-Ray within the next year or so, but my question is: If I turn off these settings, isn't it all kind of pointless? I hear with the high-res you get the soap opera/home video look. The writers on this site tend to delve into gushing over the importance of building up a blu-ray collection and seeing films how they should be seen with theatrical quality, but do you keep this if you turn off all the wonky settings.

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Originally Posted by Navidson 

So I will probably end up buying a new TV and Blu-Ray within the next year or so, but my question is: If I turn off these settings, isn't it all kind of pointless? I hear with the high-res you get the soap opera/home video look. The writers on this site tend to delve into gushing over the importance of building up a blu-ray collection and seeing films how they should be seen with theatrical quality, but do you keep this if you turn off all the wonky settings.

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Originally Posted by Navidson 

So I will probably end up buying a new TV and Blu-Ray within the next year or so, but my question is: If I turn off these settings, isn't it all kind of pointless? I hear with the high-res you get the soap opera/home video look. The writers on this site tend to delve into gushing over the importance of building up a blu-ray collection and seeing films how they should be seen with theatrical quality, but do you keep this if you turn off all the wonky settings.

With HDTVs that can display at 120 hz or higher, Blu-rays can show movies at 24 fps like they do at the theater.  DVDs and television in the US all display at around 30 fps, which is the "home video" look.  "Motion Plus" type settings are only good for things you want to look at as if they were "live" like sports and video games, and some people prefer it for animation, though I still hate it.  It's adding in frames and trying to smooth everything out, which makes things look weird and wrong.  I'm guessing if there were actually frames there in the source, higher frame rates would just look different instead of terrible (and according to James Cameron it's the future!).  All of these "Motion Plus" settings are simply extrapolating and adding new frames, which is why they suck so badly.