Google "Soap Opera Effect" and you'll get lots of hits. It is actually called the "Soap Opera Effect." It wil be good to ask avid watchers of some shows just WHY they are called soap operas and hear the response. I think this argument about "cinematic" and "soap opera" effects is just an example of Pavlovian conditioning. i mean like the quality or whatever of every movie is transformed to look like a soap opera on that tv i just cant stand watching … Does that make sense? People have been conditioned by being raised on low frame rates in the cimema to expect artificial blur and consequently think that it s the way that it should look like, but real life is more like a high frame rate clip. This extremely smooth motion has earned the name the “Soap Opera Effect,” after the way those shows looked, having been shot on cheaper 30Hz … I love my LG OLED TV (OLED55C8PCA) because … Its funny how we call show soaps without really knowing why….they are called soap operas cos they just are…. .

ok so we have this new TV at my moms house thats massive and is awesome and the surround sound is great but i just cannot watch it at all because of one reason. Anyone have experience with the 4K OLED displays making everything look like a soap opera? It makes movies look hyper-real, like a documentary or video game or soap opera. That's why sports, reality and game shows, and soap operas have smoother motion than 24Hz films. it just seems like everything we watch on it looks like a soap opera.

This looks like a soap opera because soap operas use a higher frame rate (30 fps) than film (24 fps). These days tho even tho this is not recognized they still are referred this way….shows on the BBC that have no ads even. It's something called the Soap Opera Effect. Some people like it, some don't. Look in your TV's menu for something called TruMotion and turn it off. Most movies and TV shows these days are filmed at 24 frames per second, but video in higher framerate is much smoother. Your TV is smoothing out the motion on screen by creating extra frames of video in between the frames of the source. .