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anyone tried 120Hz/240Hz motion setting watching Trek movies?

I use it quite a lot specifically for Trek.
It makes enterprise better in my opinion because it makes the image tonally similar to stuff like voyager, and if you use it with a bit of tinkering it gives a more traditional feel to the tng remasters when they were transmitted.

It sounds like your aim is to make the shows look older, not better.
To an extent, with enterprise, that's sort of true. But is more to with changing the tone of the picture....some things look good being TV and some look good being film.
Enterprise falls under fish nor fowl sometimes, especially following that odd trend at the end of the nineties to treat video to look like film....which doesn't always work.
In terms of it being better, the frame rate after a certain point is about taste rather than something you can calibrate with definite values. Film is 24 fps, TV to a brit is a better level of detail than to an American back in ye olden days.
Once you couple modern TV post processing with that...as I have said before, there's sometimes very very little difference between a digital Sd picture and a decent Vhs recording. And some of the prints aired on TV here even now are much worse.
The jump to Blue Ray is a bit bigger. But again, unless the video quality is well made to start with...negligible.
Wrath of Khan in HD is awful cos they messed up the colours, but First Contact was on Syfy HD the other night and hasn't looked that good since I saw it in the cinema.
I don't remember if I had the motionflow on for that.
The TV and PlayStation upscale does bring dvd tng extremely close to the remaster as transmitted on syfy HD.
I have not seen it on blue ray, which should, on paper, be better.
The only exception is the colours, but again, the 'better' picture downland feel right, because for twenty years, the uniforms were burgundy, teal, mustard, with subtle variations between characters (data's top versus yar, true blue science against beverlys medical teal) and now they are almost Tos level colours. Again that can probably be replicated a little by adjusting colour saturation.

So I guess it's about true versus true.
 
Maybe it depends on the manufacturer and the screen type. I use a medium interpolation setting on my Panasonic Plasma and it actually clears the picture up very nicely for movies. The visual stuttering on fast moving objects/background dissapears. Maybe it looks different on a LCD screen or different manufacturer (with a different software running by the TV). Funny enough on high interpolation it actually distorts the image negativly (many flickering areas), while medium just enhances it.
 
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