Tom Cruise PSA: How to Fix the HDTV 'Soap Opera Effect'
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#2Can't disagree that the motion smoothing that most TVs now have really makes movies look awful.
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#3I remember being horrified by this effect when I was watching Star Wars on my friend's TV. It looked like a high-school production. But he was so proud of his new TV that he didn't think it was weird at all.
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#4Did I need a 90 second video to say what could be communicated in one sentence of text:
“Turn off motion smoothing”.
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#5Did I need a 90 second video to say what could be communicated in one sentence of text: “Turn off motion smoothing”.
I watched the video confused after reading your comment, proceeding to learn:
1. What motion smoothing is.
2. It can probably be turned off on your television, and you should try.
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#6I’ve always wondered what it was that made content on modern televisions look like amateur productions, far too smooth, or giving an incredibly unsettling feeling.
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#7The best way to watch M:I Fallout at home is on the Blu-ray 3D release they're apparently not making.
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#8I understand the concept in theory, but I'm having a very hard time finding examples online that actually demonstrate why it's bad. Does anyone know of a video that demonstrates well why I want to turn off motion smoothing for movies?
24fps isn't some magically "correct" frame rate. It's very slow and significantly constrains the viable range of camera work. I wish I could see what all the fuss is about here.
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#9I understand the concept in theory, but I'm having a very hard time finding examples online that actually demonstrate why it's bad. Does anyone know of a video that demonstrates well why I want to turn off motion smoothing for movies? 24fps isn't some magically "correct" frame rate. It's very slow and significantly constrains the viable range of camera work. I wish I could see what all the fuss is about here.
It looks bad. But there's no accounting for taste.
This is not an objective quality, and yet most people get that it's a disappointing picture quality.
Directors and producers have put lots of effort into getting movies to exude an impression of good lighting, and visual imerssion, to aid in forgetting that the motion picture's anything but a window into another reality, as close to sonder as possible.
Flicker and motion artifacts leap out in the mind, distracting some (many) from the setting of the movie. It's an uncanny valley thing, and once you spot it, the movie becomes something of a cartoon, and a lesser representation of captured photography.
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#10Now if only we could stop with the lazy coloring that results in a blue and orange tint on blockbusters.
See https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...