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| The Samsung PN50A760 did a very good job producing smooth motion, but we did notice an annoying and ubiquitous greenish tinge on bright moving objects. We also noticed some problems with content that goes through the 3:2 pulldown process to produce a more film-like effect. All of the testing in this section was done with DisplayMate, which you can read more about in our Performance: Summary section. |
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Motion Smoothness (8.5) 
As is typical of plasma televisions the Samsung PN50A760 did a very good job producing smooth motion, with very little motion blur. This is in sharp contrast to LCD displays that often show significant motion blur with fast moving objects.
Motion Artifacting (6.50)
Where the Samsung PN50A760 didn't perform quite as well was with motion artifacating. The big issue here is an obvious greenish tinge that trails bright objects in almost every situation. This is definitely an issue you're going to notice while looking at the television. We wish we knew why this happened, but we don't. It's likely related to a problem with the televisions processing.
3:2 Pulldown & 24fps (6.5)
3:2 pulldown is a process used to convert signals that should be displayed at 24 frames per second, but because of the limitations of broadcast televisions are actually sent to the television at 60 frames per second. Via 3:2 pulldown this content can be reprocessed so it displays at 24 frames per second. This is important because 24fps content has a film-like look that is usually the original intent of the producer.
Unfortunatelly this process can also introduce some issues, and we saw a couple of them with the Samsung PN50A760. In particular we noticed some flickering in high contrast moving patterns and jaggedness with certain repetitive moving patterns like stadium seats. This could produce a noticeable effect when you are watching content processed with 3:2 pulldown.
The Samsung PN50A760 is also capable of natively displaying content that is fed to it at 24fps. This is commonly done from a Blu-ray player feeding content that was produced at this frame rate. This doesn't involve the 3:2 pulldown process so the issues discussed above won' apply in these situations.
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