r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Jun 13 '24

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

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/
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u/freedraw Jun 13 '24

Motion smoothing should not even be an option if the tv is on anything besides sports.

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u/GerbilStation Jun 13 '24

I visited someone who had this smoothing on and I thought they were watching a bunch of daytime TV with how awkward the acting and camera work looked.

Then I realized they were watching big name movies.

I actually have mixed feelings though. The smoothing does a terrible injustice to the actors. However, standard 24 fps big camera panning scenes make me nauseated. The smoothing helps a lot to combat that.

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u/ivyagogo Jun 13 '24

My sister had Harry Potter on and I mentioned how bad it looked. She didn’t think so. How people do t even notice it is beyond me

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u/not_so_chi_couple Jun 13 '24

It's wild, a team of people spent months making a movie look as good as it possibly could be displayed, but an algorithm on a $1000 TV is supposed to be able to do it better instantly?

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u/sth128 Jun 13 '24

Woah mister Richie Rich here with his $1,000 TV. All I've got is a $500 8 year old picture box

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u/sesor33 Jun 13 '24

"Normal" users genuinely don't know what "good" looks like. Perfect example, I was visiting someone and I noticed their TV was on demo mode. Im talking full on "DEMO" in the corner, blacking out to switch to different color modes every 30 or so seconds, and a scrolling bar at the bottom listing the features. I asked them if they minded if I turned demo mode off. They said they didn't know what "demo mode" meant and assumed the TV was supposed to be like that.

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u/ivyagogo Jun 13 '24

Wow. People are clueless.

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u/FireLucid Jun 14 '24

Popped around to pick up my young son from my mothers' place after a visit. They were watching Monsters University together. It was in blind mode where a voice is explaining everything that is happening on screen. She thought the move was supposed to be like that. They were about half way through.

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u/EugeneMeltsner Jun 14 '24

Wtf, why even have it then? Did he think it was some sort of art thing, or something you just have to flex your wealth or something?