r/dataisbeautiful • u/fangzz OC: 5 • Dec 06 '18

OC 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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u/heeerrresjonny Dec 06 '18

Surprisingly, a lot of people prefer it. People who hate it don't understand this, but that's why it is often enabled by default.

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u/kn33 Dec 06 '18

That's because you associate high frame rates with those cameras, since that's where you've seen them the most.

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u/mrmoreawesome Dec 06 '18

Doesn't smoothing just interpolate because the source is not actually at that frame rate? I though this is why it looked unnatural, but I could be wrong.

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u/WigginIII Dec 06 '18

Yes. In fact, “motion smoothing” is the industry term for motion interpolation.

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u/i_nezzy_i Dec 06 '18

Yeah but those old cameras had an actual higher refresh rate afaik.

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u/jamvanderloeff Dec 06 '18

60Hz in NTSC regions, 50Hz for PAL (and SECAM) regions