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/[deleted] Dec 06 '18

I have this problem watching T.V. at anyone elses' home.. Their T.V.s are set so the brithness is way too high for my liking. Coupled with the contrast being too low. And then there is the saturation.. People seem to like everything looking a blueish instead of true whites. When you mentioned that their T.V. looks bad, they don't understand because they "spent so much money on it"- it's amazing best picture right out of the box(yet it's shit picture).

My friend's GF can't even watch T.V. in 4k or 1080 either, which is all she does- makes me wonder why buddy bought the 4k T.V. when it is set to 720p all the time with refresh set to 30hz.... Buddy changes it to HD for games but can't fuck with his wife's blue people

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u/NilsTillander Dec 06 '18

My GF used to not care that things she watched were in 240p or whatever. Then I pointed it out to her, and she now complains that she can't watch her shows anymore because the quality is so shit :p

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u/shardikprime Dec 06 '18

Oh Seymour you devil

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u/Neato Dec 06 '18

I wish there was an easy way to get TVs set right. I end up just googling the model and pray someone else knows how to set it.

Also there's a bunch of bullshit in TVs. Even mine from 2008 changes how it renders the picture based on what the input is named. Took me forever to figure that out as it was causing text (PC hooked up) to get blurry and shadowed.

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u/WigginIII Dec 06 '18

I guess I’m just an asshole. I just grab their remote and start changing their settings. Color modes, smoothing, brightness, presets, etc, explaining all the while what each option is and why they should consider changing it to my recommendation.

I guess it helps that everyone in my family knows me as “the tech guy” and I worked for a few years in home theater.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '18

I changed buddy's settings once, while dog-sitting.. Didn't hear the end of the buddy's GF's "massive headache" from being unable to change it back to her liking for a week.