My TV’s setup correctly. It’s just that streaming is garbage.
It has a time and place, certainly. Anything on film in HD looks
decent overall, but high end video existed since laserdisc when quality via other mediums, even OTA boadcast, wasn't there. For casual viewing, it's great - until you're pay $100/mo for a dozen service providers, on top of the internet and other required components, as amortized. And people griped about '90s cable back int the day except their SD material didn't look as choppy. But there was no HD either...
Granted, I've not looked lately - maybe bundled packages involving many providers leads to a net lower cost instead of buying them all separately. But that's not the only possible issue: The means to compress, including frame stripping, does become an issue for some shows (usually anything that came from a videotaped finished master, even DS9 and VOY as those are coming from 29.97fps - despite being transferred from 24FPS film to VT. Then to make room for streaming, frames are yanked and the result is choppier than the results of a slap chop...)) There's also noise reduction algorithms used in encoding and decoding, not to mention the TV can also do its share of cleanup and even on-the-fly frame interpolation - yet everything is still sold as "high definition" after frame rate and bandwidth are reduced and noise reduction that selectively blurs the image... by the time 200mb/s is ubiquitous then we might see bona fide improvements in higher bitrates as well. As long as the service providers still keep the shows available and that's yet another issue people don't seem to be happy with.
Also note, adding artificial grain also helps compression. Of course, nobody wants to watch something filmed or recorded in 2019 yet looks like a 16mm scanned film neg from 1970, back when that was deemed good enough since only SD existed and 16mm was higher in quality...
And if the TV's brightness is set too high, or if it has a MVA or PVA panel and you're looking from too steep an angle, that causes contrast shift (looks brighter) and a lot of artifacting is in the darker areas so it can't be seen as easily. (Of course, excessive artifacting will show issues everywhere, that stand out royally on a paused frame and on material that hadn't been given noise reduction, or if said compression is so high that no amount of reduction techniques can mask the issues... then again, if it looks decent while not paused...)
Also, speaking of a slap chop:
Nuts, huh?
