what you guys are irrationally angry about is motion interpolation which is on by default on many tvs these days. It makes pretty much everything look like it was shot on video.
― silverfish, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah they have a tv with that motion interpolation in the lobby of my office, it makes a of the older standard movies look HORRIBLE
thankfully our home tv is slightly older and doesn't have this. I don't think I want it, honestly.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
Would interpolation be a factor in video shot a TV studio? Announcers and reporters look the greasiest to me.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Interpolation is likely the cause, but another factor may be that announcers and reporters - male and female - have been caking and greasing themselves up for 60 years. The first reflex once HDTV came along was to apply more cake and grease to hide any wanton liver spots. And of course, this made them look even worse.
So the irony that's coming to live local television with HD is the counter-instinct that less works better now than ever before.
― pplains, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Our TV has settings dumbed down for dummies that change this. They are labeled sports, movies, some other shit I can't remember. Sports is the one that makes everything look like how soap operas look.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah I hate that motion interpolation thing to, so annoying. Glad our TV is just old enough not to have it.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Poetry. It is rare now that I read a poem that doesn't make my eyes roll. I use to be really into it as a kid and into my thirties but for a few years now, it makes me irrationally angry.
My best friend's husband wrote her poems when he was trying to impress her and she'd send them to me to read to see what I thought. Blehk, I decided then the most deplorable poetry is the kind men write to women in an attempt to impress and undress. I am still convinced, for the most part, that men write one poem and just keep recycling it with each new female. They've been married ten years and we still laugh about the "poetry".
― *tera, Saturday, 2 June 2012 22:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
THAT'S what it's called!!!! I always wondered why HDTV'S make everything look like it was shot on video. So awful, but still not as awful as idiots who don't care what aspect ratio setting their set is on and watch things stretched and then bitch about black bars on the side when you try to fix it.
― Delbert Botts, D.D.S. (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 4 June 2012 15:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Soap Opera EffectThe "video" look is a byproduct of the perceived increase in framerate due to the interpolation and is commonly referred to as the "Soap Opera Effect" after the way those shows looked, having been shot on cheaper 30 fps video instead of regular broadcast equipment or film.[16] Some complain that the effect ruins the theatrical look of cinematic movies.[10] Others appreciate motion interpolation as it reduces motion blur produced by camera pans and shaky cameras and thus yields better clarity of such images. For this reason, almost all manufacturers have built in an option to turn the feature off. The soap opera effect can also be known as "Judder adjustment" or "Judder Removal"[17] This "video look" is created deliberately by the VidFIRE technique to restore archive television programs that only survive as film telerecordings.[18]
― Delbert Botts, D.D.S. (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 4 June 2012 15:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
still not as awful as idiots who don't care what aspect ratio setting their set is on and watch things stretched and then bitch about black bars on the side when you try to fix it.
Arg. Yes. Also, if the TV has a setting to turn off the soap opera effect, people should turn it off if they don't like it! This is like in the olden days when the default resolution setting for computer monitors was like 600 x 800 and people (without visual impairments) would use their computer like that without changing it.
― carl agatha, Monday, 4 June 2012 16:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
well the only time i see it is at a bar. i'm worried that everyone else likes it. and then it'll slowly become standard.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 4 June 2012 19:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Paper towel dispensers that are packed so full that no matter how hard you try to just pull one out, another thirty come falling behind it.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 June 2012 19:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty easy to turn off the motion interpolation.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 4 June 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
zachlyon next time you're in a bar with the motion interpolation turned on (and I agree - I usually see the terrible stretched out images on HD TVs in bars, too) demand the remote and fix it for them.
― carl agatha, Monday, 4 June 2012 20:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
My dad does the stretched out image on his TV so he can use the entire screen. Which definitely makes me irrationally angry.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 4 June 2012 20:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
I love that the thing that inspired this thread was a "where's george?" $1.00 bill
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 June 2012 20:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
those black bars are shitty tho, someday there'll be a tv that just changes its size to accommodate the picture i spose
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, 4 June 2012 21:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
my inlaws have a hd tv and cable with hd channels, but always watch standard-def shows in square-o-vision
ugh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 June 2012 21:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
I still don't understand why channels insist on showing programs where "the following has been modified to fit your screen." Surely 4:3 screens are a shrinking minority by now.
― pplains, Monday, 4 June 2012 21:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Our (plasma) TV changes its aspect ratio automatically depending on if the digital channel/DVDs signal says its widescreen or not. Well, usually. Sometimes I have to prod it manually.
Cant say Ive noticed the harsh HD interpolation but our TV signals are diff here anyway being PAL. US TV always looked weird in Aus, really fuzzy and strange and blurred (lower res/FPS?). But I dont really know the technical reasons and I'm waiting for sic or someone in the biz to tell me I'm talking out of my bum :)
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 4 June 2012 23:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, US's NTSC was lower quality than PAL by quite a way, with many fewer lines/screen (we benefited from being behind the times and introing TV later)--not sure how this works these HDTV days, though.
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
I do notice a few annoying things w/the plasma. The contrast is a little washy on ours - no true black - and in very dark scenes, theres this weird movement-blur effect you see on the screen. Like, a smearing effect?
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
wait, sic's a proctologist?
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
that is but one of his many talents
― way instain eyes (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
tbf i asked specifically for the professional title, proctology is one field where you don't want to find yrself at the mercy of a talented amateur
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
genuine lol
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 01:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
Trayce are you talking abt digital compression (like the way blacks appear in a divx file)?
Also is it "trace" or "tray-see"?
― Delbert Botts, D.D.S. (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 02:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hah thats a funny thing to ask after all these yrs! (its "trace").
Its not artefacting really - though that also becomes VERY obvious on a 50in TV, I tell you (ugh why do the media just get lazy and blow up youtube clips on the damn news now?). Its this strange motion-blur smearing effeect but it is really only visible/annoying im a really dark scene.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 02:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
I thought it was "trace" but someone told me they always thought it to be like "Tracy" and that kinda blew my mind (like finding out "Louis" is pronounced like "Louie")
― Delbert Botts, D.D.S. (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 02:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
old people who mention in general conversation how they're probably going to die soon. not like your grandpa in a serious convo, but this patron at work telling me she's not going to bother learning some new skill because she's 76 and she's probably only got 10 years left. quit feeling sorry for yourself, you already made it further than most people.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
my step-grandmother does this all the time and i get annoyed at her too.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
a) ppl who try to organise, say, a camping trip by sending out a group email with no joke, at least 10 date ranges to choose from. none of which fall anywhere near public holidays FOR WHICH CAMPING WAS DESIGNED. but it's more the vast number of dates to sift through that annoys me
b) ppl in the email group, notorious slackers/non decision-makers who respond to said email saying either "any time is good for me just let me know" or "I can go on these 4 dates let me know what you decide"
sometimes I hate my friends.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
needless to say we should get this trip nailed down by...oooh December
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
ppl who step into the elevator, press the button for their floor, and then stand there as if guarding the buttons from any further use
this has surely been mentioned already, but searching 10k posts for it would make me ia
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
elevator use is almost 100% ia start to finish
pretty much anything that involves people lately just makes me reach for my flamethrower
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
The other day I had a long elevator IA post planned but I forgot it by the time I got to my office. It was about people who get on the elevator and say "Going up?" when there is an indicator light showing which way the elevator is headed.
Wait did I post this already? I can't even remember anymore.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
This actually happened to me while reading your post while riding the elevator back from lunch a minute ago.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
I said that this morning to someone in the elevator with me at my kids' daycare. We were in the lobby and there are only two floors. I thought I was hilar.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have one coworker who is not able to ever ride an elevator in silence. She's lovely, quite pleasant to talk to normally but it's like the confined space makes her nervous so she will gab away about her lunch or her shoes or her hair or her jacket or whatever for the entire elevator ride (thankfully only 2 floors). I always want to hug her and say 'shhh it's okay, it's okay"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Stop. Sharing. George Takei. Posts.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 22:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
old people who mention in general conversation how they're probably going to die soon.
My dad's side of the family is notorious for this, but not in a self-pitying way. My dad and his sisters were all late-80s to mid-90s when we last spent holidays together and their small talk was, "Yah, 88's old enough."
"Yah, that's for sure. I don't want to live as long as Papa or Ma. Even Uncle Ludwig lived too long."
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 22:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Putting zombies in everything. Over-saturation of zombies has really grated on me.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
OMG yessss. He's just like everyones weird old uncle who just discovred the internet. THATS NOT FUNNY.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Stop. Sharing. Andy Borowitz. Posts.
fixed
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
the elevator at work has front and back doors, leading to even more awkwardness
tbh nearly everything in this thread involves rational anger -- my biggest truely irrational anger is when ppl try to talk to me (in person) when i am on the phone. that is also rational, but it enrages me way out of proportion to its objective offensiveness. fortunately this doesn't happen much since i stopped working in bookstores
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
and/or truly
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh gosh yes I am like that about phonecalls too. I'm like "ffs I cant listen to two people at once". Esp hard thanks to hearing loss in one ear.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
ppl who leave radio/music playing while they are watching tv.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
On the flip, I'm not crazy when people on the phone are all "So yeah we're going to meet -- oh shit. What's going on? There's .. like.. some blue lights up here. Everyone's slowing... Huh. Just a guy pulled over speeding... I wonder how fast he was going?"
SO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO MEET, YOU WERE SAYING?
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
I used to have a friend who'd call me at random when he was bored at work (worked nights often) and, every time without fail, while talking to me something to do with his job would cause him to say "hang on gotta take this" and put me on hold/put the phone down while he did work things. Frequently, the call would be 90% me sitting there waiting for him to finish work shit. I got fed up with it eventually and told him to stop calling me WHEN HE CANT TALK BECAUSE HE IS BUSY AT WORK.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:34 (11 months ago) Permalink