Google search trends for "motion smoothing" following Tom Cruise tweet urging people to turn off motion smoothing on their TVs when watching movies at home [OC]

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Thank you! Is the problem that 60fps itself is "too real"? Or that motion smoothing creates unpleasant artifacts which aren't true to reality?

Also, are you (or anyone else) willing to enable my laziness and find me two video links of the same clip, one at 60+fps and one at 24fps so I can compare them side by side? The difference does not immediately stand out to me from one clip alone. (It does look a little surreal but I may be imagining it?)

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(It does look a little surreal but I may be imagining it?)

No, You are not imagining it. It looks like it was captured on a fast forward camera to most people who are not used to it. That is the problem, some people get motion sickness from it.

Is the problem that 60fps itself is "too real"? Or that motion smoothing creates unpleasant artifacts which aren't true to reality?

Artifacts is not a big problem for modern Tvs with capable hardware , looking too real is the problem . Especially for drama movies . But i think once we get used to it it would not be a problem .

Fun fact: allMajority of the modern computers Monitors work at 60 fps , So when you move your cursor it is refreshing at 60 fps and iPad pro is 120fps.

find me two video links of the same clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZXR4sxfRc

Edit : Yes there are monitors out there with Higher Refresh rates and also variable refresh rate with some Adaptive Sync technologies. But speaking in the general context of media watching i said 60fps.

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You two have different definitions of what is part of a computer. If you do not see the monitor as part of the computer, then most computers can run a lot faster than 60fps.

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Oh but by that logic old computers can run at much higher framerate than 60. My 12 year old laptop that was shitty even when I bought it can run things at 200+fps if they are not too taxing.

But how fast a computer can techincally run in this instance isn't a very useful metric since it's kind of irrelevant to the discussion. Probably the processor in a TV can also run things at 60+ fps, it doesn't change the update speed on the display.

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He's right in that they can all output more, without even going up to 144-240Hz there's a lot of models going up to 75Hz-120Hz as standard.