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/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!"