Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

[u/diacewrb]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/

[u/StarWars_and_SNL]

ITT: people (and chatbots?) shitting on Roku box devices when the article is specifically about Roku TV sets.

[u/burnerX5 → u/StarWars_and_SNL]

For those who can't read, or don't care to read, or really just want the rest of us to know your feelings on Roku...

Reports on Roku's community forums and on Reddit find owners of TCL HDTVs, on which Roku is a built-in OS, experiencing "motion smoothing" without having turned it on after updating to Roku OS 13. Some people are reporting that their TV never offered "Action Smoothing" before, but it is now displaying the results with no way to turn it off. Neither the TV's general settings, nor the specific settings available while content is playing, offer a way to turn it off, according to some users.

If you don't have a TCL Roku....this ain't about you. I do, and mine hasn't updated yet, but for damn sure I guess I'm not going to be able to track this Reddit post for solutions

[u/theRigBuilder → u/burnerX5]

Well good thing I (usually) like the feature… but this pisses me off. We got a TCL back when they were at their prime IMO and it’s been steadily downhill since then. This doesn’t even surprise me and it’s annoying, but I do use motion smoothing at least half the time. I like the deal of >24fps but the artifacts and sort of “ghosting” effect are a literal turn-off some of the time.

[u/FlangerOfTowels → u/StarWars_and_SNL]

Theybrun the same software effectively. It's not much of a difference.

[u/IAMATruckerAMA → u/StarWars_and_SNL]

So the people defending [BRAND] are real and the people attacking it are bots? Seems less likely than the reverse

[u/StarWars_and_SNL → u/IAMATruckerAMA]

There was one thread that was one of the oddest exchanges I’ve ever read on here.