Thanks MattH for the avsforums link. They did indeed have an eighty-four page thread on my TV - I read it for a couple of hours - and someone complained about exactly what I was seeing. Someone suggested changing the AMP setting to custom, moving the motion blur thing to ten (instead of five) and the jutter control to 0 (instead of 5). I did that and voila, no more haloing or blurring and more importantly, everything suddenly looked more like film. Not quite as razor sharp as it looked when it looked like everything had been shot yesterday with a hi-def camera, but a very good image. So those problems are solved. Setting the player and TV for BD Wise means the player outputs exactly what it reads from the Blu-Ray disc - i.e. 24fps. So, I think I'm set. Of course, I was getting used to the almost 3D look of everything before making these changes - Black Narcissus, while looking more film-like, doesn't have quite the incredible detail it had the other way. I'll spend another day and see how I feel. I've read a lot of differing reports on plasma TVs - including that they're on their way out. I do know that in the store the LCD next to the Samsung plasma was much more pleasing to the eye, but someone said that was because it's so much brighter and that in a dark viewing environment the plasma would be much more pleasing. It's all very confusing.
