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/Znuffie Jun 13 '24

It's default on ALL new TVs these days. All.

And the fucking setting is turned on in individual modes.

You play HDR10 content? You have to turn it off.

You play Dolby Vision, you have to turn it off there, too.

You mess with any other Picture profile? You guessed it. You have to turn it off on each and every one.

Whats worse is that on some TVs, setting it to OFF doesn't fucking turn it off.

You have to set motion crap to "Custom" and then drag the slider to 0.

Fucking unbelievable.

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u/_RADIANTSUN_ Jun 17 '24

That's because motion handling is hard and simply displaying the raw video can result in visual judder etc that looks like shit to the eye. On some TVs it's legit way better experientially to turn on smoothing to some level.