Ravenous

Just got this player from Amazon and set it up with HDMI. The set looks good but I think it can look better. My Spiderman 3 still looked a bit grainy. Anyway when I tried to turn on the 24p it wont let me. It remains on off! Its a 1080p TV but the HDMI Im using is from 07 and came with my Oppo. Is the wire the problem? Any help or ideas on what I can do?

kefrank

What model is your TV? Are you sure that it supports 24p? Just because it's 1080p doesn't mean it does 1080p24.

Mr. Salty

In addition to what kefrank said, I'd like to point out that film contains grain. For a Blu-ray to exhibit grain is normal.

Drexl

If it's like the BD30 (which I assume it is), it won't let you turn on 24Hz unless the display tells the player it accepts it. You can't force it on like with the PS3. Your TV probably doesn't support it.

In any case, even if you could turn it on, that won't do anything to "fix" the graininess.

Ravenous

Thanks for the help guys. Yea I was pretty sure the SM3 was non fix grainy. I just wondered if the 24p changed that at all. Its the only movie I owned till getting Batman Begins (which looks great!) and Dark Knight (havent seen it yet)

The tv is a Sceptre x32. Ive looked it up and havent found any specs if its 24p; so I assumed it was automatically.

Is 24p that big of a difference?

Mr. Salty

I went to Sceptre's Web site and read the manual for your TV. There's nothing to indicate that it is capable of 24p. If it was, they'd certainly be promoting that as a feature.

kefrank

24p does nothing in regard to spatial resolution of the image or the other things most people think about when they think of "image quality". it is strictly a temporal feature that shows the film at the 24 frames per second at which it was shot (sometimes at a multiple of that frame rate with duplicated frames) eliminating the judder associated with 3:2 pulldown. in layman's terms, it makes motion a bit smoother and more film-like. some people are more sensitive to judder than others, but i would say most of us don't notice it since we've all lived with it for years on our 60Hz TVs. no doubt 24p is a very nice feature to have, but you're not missing out on anything huge without it.