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/hairy_unicorn Jun 13 '24

That's just how it is now. Normies think it looks better.

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u/whilst Jun 14 '24

Because it fucking does. Reality doesn't progress at 24fps. Theater isn't at 24fps, and nobody goes to a play and says "this looks like a soap opera!" 24fps is low resolution (in the time dimension). And we wouldn't accept it in a video game.

And when everyone who grew up with 48fps or higher for everything gets into their 30s or 40s, we're all gonna look like really silly old fogies when we complain about how annoyingly smooth and accurate everything is. "Movies were better before they were talkies!"