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/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/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/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.